vignette

A decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book or chapter of a book or along the border of a page.

An unbordered picture, often a portrait, that shades off into the surrounding color at the edges.

A short, usually descriptive literary sketch.

A short scene or incident, as from a movie.

To provide (a photograph or image) with indistinct or fading edges.

To describe in a brief way.

In photography, to treat or produce, as a portrait, in the style of a vignette.

A running ornament of vine-leaves, tendrils, and grapes, as in architecture.

The flourishes in the form of vine-leaves, branches, etc., with which capital letters in manuscripts are sometimes surrounded.