单词 | vignetter |
释义 | vignetter in British English (vɪˈnjɛtə) noun a device used in printing vignettes or fading borders on photographs vignetter in American English (vɪnˈjetər) noun 1. Photography a device for blurring the edges of a photographic image so as to fade them into a plain surrounding area 2. a vignettist Word origin [1870–75; vignette + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Victorian, asymmetric, billing, fifth wheel, linkage-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner) |
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