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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Used in a student paper to describe a brief, rather snarky, description, a tart vignette becomes a vinaigrette.
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Wonderful. I found a few other examples. We can hope it’s not a spell-check error. Pretty funny. The final example is most striking. The vinaigretting probably used balsamique.
The second story, Unkindness of Ravens, was the longer of the two. A short vinaigrette on how Cass met Corwyn.
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The best part of the whole book was the Showdown chapter in Atlantic City where each person just had a short vinaigrette in one longer chapter
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Aye.. lots of potential here Ken.
Not sure the pic, as is, is being used to it’s best potential but that house in mono with a twinge of sepia, some dark clouds and some vinaigretting would look great.
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Unsurprisingly, both ‘vinegar’ (bitter wine) and ‘vignette’ do have ‘wine/vine’ in common:
1751, “decorative design,” originally a design in the form of vine tendrils around the borders of a book page, especially a picture page, from French vignette, from Old French diminutive of vigne “vineyard”. Sense transferred from the border to the picture itself, then (1853) to a type of small photographic portrait with blurred edges very popular mid-19c. Meaning “literary sketch” is first recorded 1880, probably from the photographic sense.
Which takes nothing away from the eggcorn. I like the idea of the literary sketch being tart and acidic, or a touch oily even. Even salty, peppery and with a touch of mustard.
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