Tuscan
[tuhs-kuh n]
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Tuscany, its people, or their dialect.
- Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders: developed in Rome, it is basically a simplified Roman Doric, with unfluted columns and with no decoration other than moldings.Compare composite(def 3), Corinthian(def 2), Doric(def 3), Ionic(def 1).
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Origin of Tuscan
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Tuscānus Etruscan, equivalent to Tusc(ī) the Etruscans + -ānus -an
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Contemporary Examples
“Expansion favors everyone,” added the 79-year-old Tuscan, who started off as a bookkeeper in a marble firm in 1955.
Newton shot the photos in Monte Carlo—where he lived—and the Tuscan countryside.
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His latest Robert Langdon bestseller has tourists flocking to the Tuscan capital as recession grips Italy.
Then, in 2010, bones thought to be his were found in a seaside church grave in Porto Ercole on the Tuscan coast.
We were going to do a book called The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.
Historical Examples
Though all cannot live on the piazza,” as the Tuscan proverb has it, “every one may feel the sun.
Self-HelpSamuel Smiles
The Tuscan looked at him with all the scarcely-veiled contempt of the North for the South.
Olive in ItalyMoray Dalton
It has been suggested that it stands for Maia, a name of the Tuscan goddess.
Clare AveryEmily Sarah Holt
Vertumnus had a statue in the Tuscan Way in Rome, and a temple.
The Book of Hallowe'enRuth Edna Kelley
Yet this is just the weather in which Tuscan landscape looks its loveliest.
New Italian sketchesJohn Addington Symonds
Tuscan
- of or relating to Tuscany, its inhabitants, or their dialect of Italian
- of, denoting, or relating to one of the five classical orders of architecture: characterized by a column with an unfluted shaft and a capital and base with mouldings but no decorationSee also Ionic, composite (def. 4), Doric, Corinthian
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- a native or inhabitant of Tuscany
- any of the dialects of Italian spoken in Tuscany, esp the dialect of Florence: the standard form of Italian
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Word Origin and History for tuscan
Tuscan
late 14c., from Italian Toscano, from Late Latin Tuscanus "belonging to the Tusci," a race of ancient Italy, from Tuscus, earlier *Truscus, shortened form of Etruscus (cf. Etruscan).
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