roman
noun
a metrical narrative, especially in medieval French literature.
pseudo-Roman
-
a word derived from
Roman.
Example Sentences
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Jay Sarno, 47, who two years ago opened the garish, pseudo-Roman Caesar's Palace, is trying a new approach.
From Time Magazine Archive
To his successors he bequeathed his new goddess, a large, placid pseudo-Roman lady, the work of his good friend Sculptor Pierre Poisson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Machiavelli has a personal, Italian side, which is mocking and incisive—and this is all that is worth while in him—and he has a pretentious pseudo-Roman side, which is unspeakably tiresome.
From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
Nature had gifted Bramante with calm judgment and refined taste; his sense of the right limitations of the pseudo-Roman style was exquisite, and his feeling for structural symmetry was just.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
Apart from the chroniclers of individual exploits, such as López de Ayala, Brantôme, and the others, they are wholly colourless, and either pseudo-Roman or pseudo-Greek.
From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
