noun
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an Italian custom or style
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Italian quality or life, or the cult of either
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Origin of Italianism
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At any rate the poem contains the whole apparatus of nymphs and satyrs transplanted to Italian landscape and living a life of commingled Hellenism and Italianism.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
All that was essentially Spanish was for the time forgotten, submerged in an imported Italianism.
From The Story of Seville by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley
In recent years the Italian poet has abandoned his native land, living in Paris, writing his last work in French, having apparently exiled himself for the rest of his life and renounced his former Italianism.
From The World Decision by Robert Herrick
I have no doubt that sçue is correct, and is an Italianism, saputo having sometimes the sense of prudent or judicious.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
The overture, with its hollow ring of gaiety, strikes the note of Italianism which echoes throughout the opera.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
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