Borghese

American  

[bawr-ge-ze, bawr-gey-zee, -zey] / bɔrˈgɛ zɛ, bɔrˈgeɪ zi, -zeɪ /

noun

1. a member of a noble Italian family, originally from Siena, that was important in Italian politics and society from the 16th to the early 19th century.

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Borghese British  

/ borˈɡeze /

noun

1. a noble Italian family whose members were influential in Italian art and politics from the 16th to the 19th century

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Example Sentences

The sculpture, along with Caravaggio’s two paintings, has remained in the collection of Rome’s Galleria Borghese.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Filming took place on the classic Paramount Studios lot, at the historic Il Borghese condo building in Hancock Park and at an “ultra-glamorous, deeply L.A.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

In Rome, he began a lifelong fascination with the marble statue “Sleeping Hermaphroditus” at the Borghese Gallery.

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2022

That was the trio's thinking in "I Know Who Did It," the second season finale Hoffman co-wrote with Robb Turosky and Matteo Borghese.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2022

They would have seen that her eyebrows were drawn on as though by Magic Marker, and that her face, owing to the Princess Borghese makeup she sold on commission, was the color of a brick.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides