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VITRINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vitrine mean?
• VITRINE (noun)
The noun VITRINE has 1 sense:
1. a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
Familiarity information: VITRINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
case; display case; showcase; vitrine
Hypernyms ("vitrine" is a kind of...):
container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vitrine"):
trophy case (a case in which to display trophies)
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