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prettygoodwordvitrine (vi-TREEN) - n., a glass cabinet or case, esp. for displaying art objects.
This can include a museum case with glass walls and top, a cabinet against the wall, a glass-topped table-thing, or whatever -- display case is the key thing here. And not, as I thought, an obsolete term for a clear solvent -- though clear is an operative sense: adopted around 1880 from French, coined from vitre, pane of glass, from Latin vitrum.
---L.
This can include a museum case with glass walls and top, a cabinet against the wall, a glass-topped table-thing, or whatever -- display case is the key thing here. And not, as I thought, an obsolete term for a clear solvent -- though clear is an operative sense: adopted around 1880 from French, coined from vitre, pane of glass, from Latin vitrum.
---L.
