Italianate

[ih-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit, ih-tal-yuh-neyt]

adjective

1. Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.

2. Art.,  in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.

3. 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)

Italianated, Italianating 

1. to Italianize.

Italianate

/ ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk, ɪˈtæljənɪt, -ˌneɪt /

adjective

1. Italian in style or character

Other Word Forms

• Italianately adverb
• Italianation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Italianate¹

From the Italian word italianato, dating back to 1560–70. See Italian, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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.

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Marsak’s dedication has paid off: “Los Angeles Before the Freeways” is an engrossing collection of black-and-white images of a city in which old adobe structures sit between Italianate office buildings or peek out from behind old signs, elegant homes teeter on the edge of steep hillsides, and routes long used by locals would soon be demolished to make room for freeways.

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Her vocal style is Italianate and so, in this production, is her emotive acting.

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Route 197 for a mere 13 miles until a slight right turn leads through town to a turn-of-the-century Italianate brick building.

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Early in her stay she saw evidence of digging near her house, and after asking around, learned that an archaeological team had recently found part of a foundation of an Italianate villa, known as North View, that had been there more than a century and a half before.

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