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Italianate
[ adjective ih-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit; verb ih-tal-yuh-neyt ]
adjective
- Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
- Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.
- Architecture. noting or pertaining to a mid-Victorian American style remotely based on Romanesque vernacular residential and castle architecture of the Italian countryside, but sometimes containing Renaissance and Baroque elements.
verb (used with object)
- to Italianize.
Italianate
/ ɪˈtæljənɪt; ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk; -ˌneɪt /
adjective
- Italian in style or character
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Other Words From
- I·talian·ately adverb
- I·talian·ation noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Italianate1
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Example Sentences
There was Blondie on has right and a lovely Italianate brunette on the other side.
The choir stalls (1520-29) are masterpieces; Italianate fawns and Bacchantes are placed beside sacred personages.
This was a tall, graceful Italianate man, who carried his fifty years with the grace and ease of thirty.
Against the fair, boyish face of Nevers you had to set the saturnine Italianate countenance of Gonzague.
The Italianate Englishman became the chief part of the stock-in-trade of the satirists and moralists of the day.
Thus arose the famous proverb, "An Englishman Italianate is a devil incarnate."
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