Italianate

[ adjective ih-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit; verb ih-tal-yuh-neyt ]

adjective
  1. Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.

  2. Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.

  1. 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.

verb (used with object),I·tal·ian·at·ed, I·tal·ian·at·ing.
  1. to Italianize.

Origin of Italianate

1
From the Italian word italianato, dating back to 1560–70. See Italian, -ate1

Other 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. Beers
  • Bubble is the type of the foolish young gentleman who wants to know 'the lowest price of being italianated.'

    Old Picture Books | Alfred W. Pollard
  • This blow had been struck by Greene on the “Italianated” Courtier.

  • We may recall Ascham's horror of the Englishman Italianated.

    The Age of Erasmus | P. S. Allen

British Dictionary definitions for Italianate

Italianate

Italianesque (ɪˌtæljəˈnɛsk)

/ (ɪˈtæljənɪt, -ˌneɪt) /


adjective
  1. Italian in style or character

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