vitrine

plural vitrines

1. A glass-paneled cabinet or case, especially for displaying articles such as china, objets d'art, fine merchandise, natural history specimens, etc.

   Checking behind him nervously, the dealer was trying to concentrate on showing Bouck some small art-glass pieces in a vitrine in the middle of the booth.

   1996, Leslie Glass, Hanging Time

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   Lastly, when great numbers of the plates are treated with the hot or boiling water, it should be done in a vitrine or cabinet ventilated directly into the open air.

   1896, “The Review of the Year Past”, in Edward L. Wilson, editor, Photographic Mosaics, page 82

   The Princess offered us tea and wine, and we talked for a long time, and then she must show us her house, filled with tapestries, paintings and bibelots and, in a vitrine in a room upstairs, a wonderful collection of fans painted by Carlo van Loo[…]

   1919, Brand Whitlock, Belgium: A Personal Narrative, volume I, page 256

   Synonyms: display case, showcase