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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“An authentic 1852 Italianate townhouse, meticulously restored into a passive-house sanctuary on one of the West Village’s most coveted blocks,” the latest listing states.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
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
Hugo Wolf’s short “Italian Serenade,” which opened the program, was here lush and Italianate, while on an early 1950s disc it dances more lightly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025
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
If some yet do not well vnder- // An Eng- stand, what is an English man Italianated, I will // lish man plainlie tell him.
From The Schoolmaster by Roger Ascham
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 John Dover Wilson
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 P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
Yes; slowly the charm of law-breaking grows upon the Italianated Saxon; slowly, but surely.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
This implement of cleanliness was, however, doomed to the same anathema as the fantastical ornament of "the complete Signor," the Italianated Englishman.
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli
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