Italianate
Americanadjective
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Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
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Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.
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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)
adjective
Other Word Forms
- Italianately adverb
- Italianation noun
Etymology
Origin of Italianate
From the Italian word italianato, dating back to 1560–70. See Italian, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Today it’s an Italianate apartment building wedged between an Indian restaurant and a Target.
From Los Angeles Times
Bellinger’s actions have afforded us a rare look at the city’s pre-1871 Italianate architecture.
Hugo Wolf’s short “Italian Serenade,” which opened the program, was here lush and Italianate, while on an early 1950s disc it dances more lightly.
From Los Angeles Times
Marsak’s dedication has paid off: “Los Angeles Before the Freeways” is an engrossing collection of black-and-white images of a city in which old adobe structures sit between Italianate office buildings or peek out from behind old signs, elegant homes teeter on the edge of steep hillsides, and routes long used by locals would soon be demolished to make room for freeways.
From Los Angeles Times
Her vocal style is Italianate and so, in this production, is her emotive acting.
From Los Angeles Times
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