Italianate
Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.
Architecture. noting or pertaining to a mid-Victorian American style remotely based on Romanesque vernacular residential and castle architecture of the Italian countryside, but sometimes containing Renaissance and Baroque elements.
to Italianize.
Origin of Italianate
1Other words from Italianate
- I·tal·ian·ate·ly, adverb
- I·tal·ian·a·tion, noun
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How to use Italianate in a sentence
Sidney was certainly no Euphuist, but his style was as "Italianated" as Lyly's, though in a different way.
From Chaucer to Tennyson | Henry A. BeersBubble is the type of the foolish young gentleman who wants to know 'the lowest price of being italianated.'
Old Picture Books | Alfred W. PollardThis blow had been struck by Greene on the “Italianated” Courtier.
Calamities and Quarrels of Authors | Isaac DisraeliWe may recall Ascham's horror of the Englishman Italianated.
The Age of Erasmus | P. S. Allen
British Dictionary definitions for Italianate
Italianesque (ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk)
/ (ɪˈtæljənɪt, -ˌneɪt) /
Italian in style or character
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