How To Use Vitrine In A Sentence
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Je vais pour brancher une des lampes de la vitrine que ma patronne etait en train de placer dans la vitrine et la j'entends un gros BAAAAM puis des bruits de verre qui tombent a terre!
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The wooden mantel itself was also shown in the gallery, as was an antique vitrine containing actual plates.
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It's she who regularly cruises past Paris Modes during her lunch hour, and who "a vu un tailleur dans la vitrine".
Chantez-vous français?
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Resembling a natural history museum, the dimly lit central gallery was lined with 13 steel-and-glass vitrines, each containing a weathered stone tablet.
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Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle.
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And Mesdames and Messieurs could truly see what was in those tantalizing vitrines — the arcades were early converts to gaslight.
Paris Under Glass
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Sutured serviceably but without refinement, these soft sculptures are presented, like anthropological specimens, in woodframed glass vitrines.
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En effet, lors d'un récent après-midi lèche-vitrines à Cannes, j'ai constaté à ma grande stupéfaction, que pour être à la page cette année, il nous faudrait chausser, nous les filles, de drôles de bottes, style "esquimaux".
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The glass is held in the thinnest of metal frames, the lightness and insubstantiality of these vitrines contrasting with the mass of the original structure and the blind, blank walls of the new insertions.
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The rooms are dark and filled with vitrines so old the glass is all wiggly.
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Flatness is all, with the pale grey epidermis of the concrete peeled away in places to reveal supersize frameless vitrines.
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In another example, masks from different Swiss traditions were displayed in a line of three vitrines.
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For several years, the artist has been making colored wax casts of containers that resemble antique apothecary bottles and jars, and shelving them in vitrines, wooden cabinets or on painted ledges.
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The confusion in the long series of Etruscan galleries on the ground floor of this museum is indescribable; the vitrines are coated inside with oil and mud, and a vast number of fragile objects have been fragmented or displaced.
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He decorated the gallery walls and populated vitrines with avian paintings, porcelains, books and prints.
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The museum exhibits are planned in a series of large free-standing glass vitrines placed along the path and sheltered by the undulating canopy.
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Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" through Jan. 28 at the Otis College of Art and Design, for instance, would probably be an amen-corner jumble were it not for the time, womanpower and scrutiny the gallery was able to give to wall upon wall, and vitrine upon vitrine, of primary source material from the mid-'70s salad days of the women's movement in the Los Angeles art world.
Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun
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Doin' It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building" through Jan. 28 at the Otis College of Art and Design, for instance, would probably be an amen-corner jumble were it not for the time, womanpower and scrutiny the gallery was able to give to wall upon wall, and vitrine upon vitrine, of primary source material from the mid-'70s salad days of the women's movement in the Los Angeles art world.
Laying Claim to Its Place in the Sun
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The pieces have a shadow box feel to them because each episode is contained in some kind of vitrine like container, including a large suspended sphere that is a whole world unto itself.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream
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A rippling and undulating wall of dark felt conceals the bays along the museum's ramp, providing darkened places for vitrines and creating a light-and-dark shimmer within the building.
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A glass vitrine of bullets spells out the ranks of the Sudanese army.
The Museum of Unexploded Bombs « Squares of Wheat
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Yet the exhibition overall is beset by an archival feeling, which is abetted by the period posters and reliquary vitrines housing pamphlets and first editions.
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Two came recently: the winningly inventive Opening Ceremony, selling pioneering, quirky international fashion — long black Brazilian capes, finely knitted German undershirts — by designers and manufacturers you’ve almost certainly never heard of; and De Vera, a sort of hyper-curated flea market — a Wunderkammer, really — where necklaces made from ancient intaglios are displayed in artfully crammed vitrines alongside antique opium pipes and Victorian mourning jewelry.
A Bit of Punctuation
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Perhaps to minimize the number of pedestals or vitrines, many of the items in the show are displayed in containers that look like pneumatic tubes, held taut in midair by cables stretching from ceiling to floor.
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Black-velvet-lined vitrines in the gallery displayed the actual costumes worn.
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Also presented were two multipanel mixed-medium paintings on paper, three accordion-fold books in vitrines and a wall-filling relief of colored plasticine.
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In one encapsulated vitrine, we see a woman with a suitcase leading two children through a forest.
Tracey Harnish: Devastation of the American Dream
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Perhaps the most disappointing note is the prosaic nature of the display of the smaller archaeological artefacts in vitrines against one wall.
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A large projecting vitrine frames a view back over the winery and the three existing buildings, now rehabilitated.
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Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace.
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The presentations ranged from single-artist rooms that had been papered floor to ceiling to smaller sections of wallpaper exhibited in vitrines.
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Either way, it feels like a privilege to be able to pick up and leaf through such an extensive display rather than gaze mutely at it through the glass of a vitrine.
April « 2009 « Squares of Wheat
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Fashion Related Expressions from today's story: être dans le coup = to be in (on the style) être à la page = to be up to date (on fashions, trends ...) être tendance = to be trendy un après-midi lèche-vitrines = an afternoon spent window shopping in Mode | Permalink
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The carefully scattered installation included an array of vitrines, shelves and boxes stocked with packaging for household, garden and barnyard chemicals once readily available in hardware stores and garden shops.
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A vitrine contains parts of the original manuscripts for his 15,000 page novel and his 5,000-page autobiography.
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None of the pieces in the show were framed; they were, instead, suspended on clear monofilament inside glass vitrines.