Tuscan

[tuhs-kuh n]

adjective

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).

noun

the standard literary form of the Italian language.

any Italian dialect of Tuscany.

a native of Tuscany.

Origin of Tuscan

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin Tuscānus Etruscan, equivalent to Tusc(ī) the Etruscans + -ānus -an

Related formsnon-Tus·can, adjective, noun

Can be confusedTexan Tucson Tuscan

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Examples from the Web for tuscan

Contemporary Examples of tuscan

“Expansion favors everyone,” added the 79-year-old Tuscan, who started off as a bookkeeper in a marble firm in 1955.
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Tom Kington
August 4, 2014
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.
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Then, in 2010, bones thought to be his were found in a seaside church grave in Porto Ercole on the Tuscan coast.
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Barbie Latza Nadeau
April 8, 2012
We were going to do a book called The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.
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Historical Examples of tuscan

Though all cannot live on the piazza,” as the Tuscan proverb has it, “every one may feel the sun.
Self-Help
Samuel Smiles
The Tuscan looked at him with all the scarcely-veiled contempt of the North for the South.
Olive in Italy
Moray Dalton
It has been suggested that it stands for Maia, a name of the Tuscan goddess.
Clare Avery
Emily Sarah Holt
Vertumnus had a statue in the Tuscan Way in Rome, and a temple.
The Book of Hallowe'en
Ruth Edna Kelley
Yet this is just the weather in which Tuscan landscape looks its loveliest.
New Italian sketches
John Addington Symonds

British Dictionary definitions for tuscan

Tuscan

adjective

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

noun

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).