Vitrines

After all, who can deny the thrill of roaming at one's leisure through a fabled art wonderland, or of reading personal typed and handwritten letters from Adolph Gottlieb and Louise Nevelson, which are presented in vitrines at both the 534 West 25th Street and 34 East 57th Street spaces? ❋ Dorothy Spears (2010)

The girls slinked out of the bathroom one by one, andpressed to the wall Mission Impossible styleshuffled past some old-looking glass cabinets called vitrines. ❋ Annie Bryant (2006)

I am also curious about his own perception of the irony of sharks in "vitrines" being displayed in a building dedicated to marine science. ❋ Unknown (2010)

En effet, lors d'un récent après-midi lèche-vitrines à Cannes, j'ai constaté à ma grande stupéfaction, que pour être à la page cette année, il nous faudrait chausser, nous les filles, de drôles de bottes, style "esquimaux". ❋ Unknown (2010)

The galleries are dark, with black walls, black floors and simple, pinpoint-lighted vitrines with no visible frames. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

Yet if they stopped at one of the vitrines of small works by the 19th-century master, they could study one of the museum's great treasures: an intimate terra-cotta portrait head, made in preparation for Rodin's brooding monument to Honoré de Balzac. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2011)

And finally, there are doll houses in vitrines, that are populated with insects. ❋ Tracey Harnish (2011)

And Mesdames and Messieurs could truly see what was in those tantalizing vitrines — the arcades were early converts to gaslight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The exhibition - co-organized by the Walters, the Cleveland Art Museum and the British Museum in London - is sumptuously installed in rooms painted regal red or blue, with the gilded, jeweled and enameled reliquaries spotlit in vitrines so as to glitter as they would under candlelight within the similarly dark setting of a church. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Tennant, who began collecting butterflies during childhood summers in Cape Cod, said the cases are inspired by vitrines made by hobbyists during the Victorian era. hausinterior.com ❋ Unknown (2011)

Fashion Related Expressions from today's story: être dans le coup = to be in (on the style) être à la page = to be up to date (on fashions, trends ...) être tendance = to be trendy un après-midi lèche-vitrines = an afternoon spent window shopping in Mode | Permalink ❋ Unknown (2010)

First, a word about the Windows Gallery: It consists of 13 vitrines, 70 by 80 inches, on the outside of the Kimmel Center—eight on LaGuardia Place and five around the corner on West Third Street. ❋ William Meyers (2011)

The exhibition snakes through one of the palace's state rooms, with double-sided vitrines that make it possible to take two routes to see these miniature objects at eye-level, without feeling oppressed by the crowds that are sure to flock to this show. ❋ Paul Levy (2011)

Related vitrines show the wooden sewing frame, linen cords and threads of traditional hand bookbinding still used by rare book conservators today. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)