Veronese

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[ ver-uh-neez, -nees ]

adjective
  1. of or relating to the city or town of Verona.

noun,plural Ver·o·nese.
  1. a native or inhabitant of Verona.

Origin of Veronese

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First recorded in 1750–60; Veron(a) + -ese

Words Nearby Veronese

Other definitions for Veronese (2 of 2)

Veronese2
[ ver-uh-ney-zee; Italian ve-raw-ne-ze ]

noun
  1. Pa·o·lo [pah-aw-law], /ˈpɑ ɔ lɔ/, Paolo Cagliari, 1528–88, Venetian painter.

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How to use Veronese in a sentence

  • Cats abound in Baudelaire's verse, as dogs in the pictures of Paul Veronese, and form there a kind of signature.

    Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
  • Then there were Tintoretto and Veronese, almost as interesting to our painter.

    Great Artists, Vol 1. | Jennie Ellis Keysor
  • He has quite a Veronese power of combining his human groups with splendid architecture.

  • The only picture of Veronese's that I remember here is a portrait of his wife when her beauty was gone.

  • Do you not suppose that the soul of a Veronese imbibes colour like a piece of stuff plunged into the boiling vat of a dyer?

    Bouvard and Pcuchet, part 2 | Gustave Flaubert

British Dictionary definitions for Veronese

Veronese

/ (Italian veroˈneːse) /


noun
  1. Paolo (ˈpaːolo), original name Paolo Cagliari or Caliari. 1528–88, Italian painter of the Venetian school. His works include The Marriage at Cana (1563) and The Feast of the Levi (1573)

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