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I⋅tal⋅ian⋅ate

[adj. i-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit; v. i-tal-yuh-neyt] adjective, verb, -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.
–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.
3. 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)
4. to Italianize.

Origin:
1560–70; < It italianato. See Italian, -ate 1


I⋅tal⋅ian⋅ate⋅ly, adverb
I⋅tal⋅ian⋅a⋅tion, noun
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