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
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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
Today it’s an Italianate apartment building wedged between an Indian restaurant and a Target.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
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
Nor were later Italian tale-tellers likely to be without influence at a time when French was being "Italianated" in every possible way, to the great disgust of some Frenchmen.
From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) by George Saintsbury
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
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
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 Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
Yes; slowly the charm of law-breaking grows upon the Italianated Saxon; slowly, but surely.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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