Italianate

[ adjective ih-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit; verb 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)

, I·tal·ian·at·ed, I·tal·ian·at·ing.

1. to Italianize.

Italianate

/ ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk; ɪˈtæljənɪt; -ˌneɪt /

adjective

1. Italian in style or character

Other Words From

• I·talian·ately adverb
• I·talian·ation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Italianate¹

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

Example Sentences

There was Blondie on has right and a lovely Italianate brunette on the other side.

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The choir stalls (1520-29) are masterpieces; Italianate fawns and Bacchantes are placed beside sacred personages.

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This was a tall, graceful Italianate man, who carried his fifty years with the grace and ease of thirty.

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Against the fair, boyish face of Nevers you had to set the saturnine Italianate countenance of Gonzague.

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The Italianate Englishman became the chief part of the stock-in-trade of the satirists and moralists of the day.

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Thus arose the famous proverb, "An Englishman Italianate is a devil incarnate."

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