Paduan
adjective
of or relating to Padua or its inhabitants.
Paduans
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pluralof Paduan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Renaissance chronicler Giorgio Vasari tells us in "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects" that the sculptor was annoyed by all the roses adoring Paduans threw his way.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2015
D'Aspre, by skill and resolution, had brought his men from Padua without losing one, having refused the Paduans arms for a national guard, though ordered from Milan to grant them.
From The Liberation of Italy by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Of a real comprehension of the idealising principle of classic art there does not appear any trace; what the Paduans borrowed from the antique was limited primarily to mere outward beauty.
From Six Centuries of Painting by Randall Davies
Another Jacopo led the Paduans in 1312 against Cangrande della Scala, lord of Verona, and though taken prisoner managed to negotiate a peace in 1318.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
The spark of war spreading to the rival cities, the Paduans were soon worsted, and three hundred of their number were made prisoners.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
