What is "vitrine"

Usage examples of "vitrine".

After half a dozen displays had been reduced to spots in the vitrine, a ghostly regularity appeared.

The chamber was furnished with ascetic simplicity: a mat over a bare stone floor, a washstand, and a terminal with holo vitrine displaying a changing mandala.

Raspail said, stepping instinctively closer to the holo vitrine, as if to protect the image in it.

In the busy vitrine of a jewelry boutique he saw a small gold seal ring.

Whether the world will believe it is another matter, I guess, but when folk look at the ball with its vitrine cover and note its contents of levigen gas, they will surely see for themselves that there is something here that is out of the ordinary.

It is true that, so far as our bodies were concerned, we were protected by these delicate bells of vitrine, which were in truth tougher than the strongest steel, but even our limbs, which were exposed, felt no more than a firm constriction from the water which one learned in time to disregard.

So, too, with the exit chambers, the silica works where the vitrine bells were constructed, and the huge pumps which controlled the water.

A long row of pegs, with marks which I presume were numbers, ran round the whole room, and on each was hung one of the semi-transparent bells of vitrine and a pair of the shoulder batteries which ensured respiration.

We were fastened into our vitrine coverings, and a stout pointed staff made of some light metal was handed to each of us.

A moving patch appeared in front of us, which broke up as we approached it into a crowd of men, each in his vitrine envelope, who were dragging behind them broad sledges heaped with coal.

Our vitrine helmets prevented our hearing the thud, but it must have been prodigious when the huge body struck the floor of the ocean, and we saw the globigerina ooze fly upwards as the mud splashes when a heavy stone is hurled into it.

For the moment, however, we left the derelict creature, and with joyful hearts, for we unpractised visitors were weary and aching, found ourselves once more in front of the engraved portal of the roof, and finally standing safe and sound, divested of our vitrine bells, on the sloppy floor of the entrance chamber.

We found out later that their oxygen apparatus inside their vitrine bells would not allow of a longer absence from the recharging station than a few hours, and so their chances of learning anything of what was on the sea-bed were limited to so many miles from their central base.

Our help had come too late, however, for the impact of the great fish had broken the vitrine bell of the Atlantean and he had been drowned.

Then we have our vitrine bells on and harness ourselves on to the balls.