Dictionary

vitrine en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /vəˈtɹiːn/ (UK, US)
• /vɪˈtɹiːn/ (UK, US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

Meanings

1. A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.
   • The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo[…] 1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256:
   • Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air. 1896, “The Review of the Year Past”, in Edward L. Wilson, editor, Photographic Mosaics, page 82:
   • Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth. 1996, Leslie Glass, Hanging Time:

Forms

Relateds

vitreous

Synonyms

showcase · display case

Translations (29)

sh vitrina (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · ca vitrina (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · pl witryna (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · ru го́рка (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · fa ویترین (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · es vitrina (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · fr vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · sv vitrinskåp (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · ja 飾り棚 (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · ca escaparat (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · ro vitrină (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · da vitrineskab (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · uk вітри́на (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · de Vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · be вітры́на (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · el βιτρίνα (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · cy cabined arddangos (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · fi vitriini (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · da vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · ota جامكان (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · sh витрина (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · es cristalera (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · it vetrina (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · ru витри́на (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · cy cabinedau arddangos (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · sv vitrin (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · pt vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · pt vitrina (glass-paneled cabinet or case) · cs vitrína (glass-paneled cabinet or case)