Italianate
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.
to Italianize.
Origin of Italianate
1Other words from Italianate
- I·tal·ian·ate·ly, adverb
- I·tal·ian·a·tion, noun
Words Nearby Italianate
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How to use Italianate in a sentence
There was Blondie on has right and a lovely Italianate brunette on the other side.
The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis | Richard Ben Cramer | January 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe choir stalls (1520-29) are masterpieces; Italianate fawns and Bacchantes are placed beside sacred personages.
How France Built Her Cathedrals | Elizabeth Boyle O'ReillyThis was a tall, graceful Italianate man, who carried his fifty years with the grace and ease of thirty.
The Duke's Motto | Justin Huntly McCarthyAgainst the fair, boyish face of Nevers you had to set the saturnine Italianate countenance of Gonzague.
The Duke's Motto | Justin Huntly McCarthyThe Italianate Englishman became the chief part of the stock-in-trade of the satirists and moralists of the day.
English Literature: Modern | G. H. Mair
Thus arose the famous proverb, "An Englishman Italianate is a devil incarnate."
English Travellers of the Renaissance | Clare Howard
British Dictionary definitions for Italianate
Italianesque (ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk)
/ (ɪˈtæljənɪt, -ˌneɪt) /
Italian in style or character
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