anti-roman

British  

/ ɑ̃tirɔmɑ̃ /

noun

1. another term for antinovel

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Etymology

Origin of anti-roman

literally: anti-novel

Example Sentences

Bucato - Evan Funke's Italian training came in Emilia-Romagna, home to egg-enriched pasta, but the noodles he prefers are made with only flour, water and salt: hand-rolled pici, like thick, Tuscan spaghetti, with a long-cooked rabbit sauce; corzetti, flexible pasta coins from Liguria, with a mortar-ground walnut sauce; or a delicious but anti-Roman cacio e pepe that breaks every known rule.

From Los Angeles Times

In Life of Brian, Cleese, as a Roman centurion, catches Chapman, as Brian, writing anti-Roman graffiti.

From Newsweek

They depict him as anti-Roman Catholic and credit him with inventing a distinctly Celtic church, with its own homegrown symbols and practices.

From Slate

They lavished money on the embellishment of their capital, Gyulafeh�rv�r, which became a sort of Protestant Mecca, whither scholars and divines of every anti-Roman denomination flocked to bask in the favour of princes who were as liberal as they were pious.

From Project Gutenberg

More anti-Roman than all his predecessors, except perhaps Frederic II. of Hohenstaufen, he was destined through his practical alliance with the anti-Christian spirit of his day, to sound the knell of that same Holy Roman Empire, which was dissolved fifteen years after his death.

From Project Gutenberg