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Venetian

[ vuh-nee-shuhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to Venice or its inhabitants.
  2. pertaining to or designating a style of painting developed in Venice principally during the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized chiefly by rich, often warm colors and the illusion of deep space.
  3. in or in imitation of the style typical of Venice:

    Venetian architecture.



noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Venice.
  2. (lowercase) venetian blind.
  3. venetians, a tape or braid for supporting the slats of a venetian blind.
  4. Also called Venetian cloth. Textiles.
    1. a wool or worsted fabric made in satin or twill weave and sometimes napped, used in the manufacture of lightweight coats, suits, skirts, and dresses.
    2. a cotton fabric constructed in satin or twill weave, used chiefly for linings.

Venetian

/ vɪˈniːʃən /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Venice or its inhabitants


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Venice
  2. sometimes not capital one of the tapes that join the slats of a Venetian blind
  3. a cotton or woollen cloth used for linings

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Other Words From

  • non-Ve·netian adjective noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Venetian1

1400–50; < Medieval Latin Venetiānus, equivalent to Veneti ( a ) Venice + Latin -ānus -an; replacing Middle English Venicien < Middle French

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Example Sentences

The Venetian city government has now started gathering cellphone data of everyone who enters the city—without telling them outright.

In 2016, Damon proposed during a ride on a Venetian gondola while the couple was on a trip to Rhode Island.

Around 1612, with a name so nice he used it twice, Venetian scholar Santorio Santorio made crucial conceptual advances to the thermoscope.

From Time

The Venetian merchant is literally betting his ships will come in.

From Fortune

The Venetian, like many hotels in Vegas, is outsize and noisy.

From Ozy

The Venetian police force is headquartered in the former convent, Santa Zaccaria, another site that has seen more exciting days.

As the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy.

When the call came, Muddy was out on the truck—he had a job delivering venetian blinds.

Page Six says they dined on mussel soup, crayfish and artichoke risotto at a tony Venetian restaurant.

The windows on the first three floors are covered by closed venetian blinds, but the windows on the other floors are bare.

He proceeded straight to Venice, and it may as well be acknowledged at once, Venetian art left him cold, if not indifferent.

It is probable, and it suffices; and stories about this dry sea may easily have been spread by Venetian sailors.

From the pommel of his saddle hung a Venetian casque, which he had doffed for a turban, a more comfortable head-gear on the route.

But Lombardy and the Venetian territory would together with Piedmont form too large, too threatening a state.

The third inscription deals again with a defeat of the Venetian fleet, by Luciano Doria in 1379.

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