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Bolognese - 3 dictionary results

Bo⋅lo⋅gnese

[boh-luh-neez, -nees, -luhn-yeez, -yees; for 2 also boh-luhn-yeyz, -yey-zee or, It., baw-law-nye-ze] adjective, noun, plural -gnese.
–adjective
1. of or pertaining to Bologna or its inhabitants.
2. Italian Cookery. served with a cream sauce typically containing prosciutto, ground beef, and cheese.
3. Fine Arts. noting a style or manner of painting developed in Bologna during the late 16th century by the Carracci, characterized chiefly by forms and colors derived from the Roman high renaissance and from the Venetians.
–noun
4. a native or inhabitant of Bologna.

Origin:
1750–60; < It; see Bologna, -ese
Bo·lo·gna   (bə-lōn'yə)   
A city of north-central Italy at the foot of the Apennines north-northeast of Florence. It was originally an Etruscan town and became a Roman colony in the second century B.C. Its famed university was founded as a law school in A.D. 425. Population: 373,000.
Bo·lo'gnan, Bo'lo·gnese' (bō'lə-nēz', -nēs', -lən-yēz', -yēs') adj. & n.

Bolognese

Bo*lo`gnese"\, a. Of or pertaining to Bologna. -- n. A native of Bologna.

Bolognese school (Paint.), a school of painting founded by the Carracci, otherwise called the Lombard or Eclectic school, the object of which was to unite the excellences of the preceding schools.
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