vitrine

noun

Etymology: Borrowed from French vitrine, from vitre (“pane of glass”), from Old French, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

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

   “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.”

   “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[…]”