▪ I. vitrine, n.
(ˈvɪtriːn)
[a. F. vitrine, f. vitre glass.]
A glass show-case for specimens or for objects of art. (Also attrib. in vitrine table.)
| 1880 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 19 Nov. (1911) II. 328 A small ornament... I believe it to be Spanish, [but]..I only saw it as it lay in the vitrine at the Exposition. 1886 Athenæum 27 Mar. 430/2 Four large vitrines in the Vase Room are now appropriated to the display of the Greek examples. |
▪ II. † vitrine, a. Obs.—0
[ad. med.L. vitrīn-us, f. L. vitrum glass.]
Vitreous.
| 1656 [see vitrean a.]. |