Italianate
Americanadjective
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Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
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Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.
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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)
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Italianate
From the Italian word italianato, dating back to 1560–70. See Italian, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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In late 2000, Princeton researchers, BP officials and representatives from Ford gathered at the enormous Italianate mansion of Princeton’s president.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Mapperton, near Beaminster, is an Italianate fantasy in a steep coombe studded with topiary and sky-reflecting pools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
An imposing statue of Catherine held pride of place near the city’s iconic Italianate landmark, the Potemkin Stairs, until Ukrainian authorities removed it late last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2023
Under Muti, the orchestra has still been able to produce, say, a Beethoven’s Fifth of blistering force, but he generally wanted something more Italianate.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
We may recall Ascham's horror of the Englishman Italianated.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
Ascham with his hatred of the "Italianated gentleman," was probably quite unconscious of his own affinity to that objectionable type, when imitating the style of his favourite Tully in the Schoolmaster.
From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover
Only the incidents of Italian history, or of French history in its Italianated epoch, were capable of supplying him with the proper type of plot.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
In fact, French fencing became as indispensable an accomplishment to the Georgian gentlemen as the fine Italianated foyning had been to the Elizabethan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
If some yet do not well vnderstand, An English man Italianated. what is an English man Italianated, I will plainlie tell him.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William
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