Sistine
[sis-teen, -tin, -tahyn]
- of or relating to any pope named Sixtus.
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Also Sixtine.
Origin of Sistine
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Examples from the Web for sistine
Contemporary Examples
VATICAN CITY—In the 500 or so years since the Sistine Chapel was decorated, it has never looked so good.
She “was an attractive blonde,” Bai writes, “only in the sense that the Sistine Chapel had some pretty good artwork.”
Comparing Yellowstone to the Sistine Chapel is the brainchild of an ex-superintendent of Yellowstone Park.
He was painting the Sistine Chapel, and he was angry at one of the bishops or cardinals, so he painted him in with donkey ears.
Have you been compulsively checking to see if white smoke has billowed from the Sistine Chapel yet?
Historical Examples
She would not have him sent for—he never liked to be disturbed when he was at the Sistine.
OliveDinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
The Sistine Chapel was the most beautiful apartment in the Vatican.
Great Artists, Vol 1.Jennie Ellis Keysor
It was as if one should see the Leonardo on the ceiling of the Sistine.
A Room With A ViewE. M. Forster
You cannot go with me behind the lattice of the Sistine choir!
StradellaF(rancis) Marion Crawford
On them was hung an exquisite engraving—the Sistine Madonna and Child.
Flamsted quarriesMary E. Waller
Word Origin and History for sistine
Sistine
adj.
1769, literally "pertaining to Pope Sixtus," from Italian sistino, from Sixtus, name of five popes, from Latin sextus "sixth" (see Sextus). The "chapel" is named for Sixtus IV (Francesco della Rovere), pope 1471-84, who had it built. The painting by Raphael known as the Sistine Madonna is so called because it also shows Sixtus II, a 3c. martyr and saint; it is better known now for the two cherubs at the bottom of the picture who by 1900 were well-known in isolation from the rest of the picture in engravings, etc.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper