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)
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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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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
Beginning with the Italianate geometries of Rio de Janeiro’s Passeio Público, the country’s first municipal garden, built over a pestilential lagoon between 1779 and ’83, Brazilian parks often mirrored European ones.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024
The stately Italianate villa was designed by the Tacoma architectural firm Ferrell and Darmer.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2023
Finally they arrived at a Beaux Arts Italianate manse on West Adams formerly owned by Busby Berkeley, neighbor to Fatty Arbuckle.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2022
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
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