Venetian
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Venice or its inhabitants.
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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.
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in or in imitation of the style typical of Venice.
Venetian architecture.
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Venice.
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(lowercase) venetian blind.
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venetians, a tape or braid for supporting the slats of a venetian blind.
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Also called Venetian cloth. Textiles.
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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.
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a cotton fabric constructed in satin or twill weave, used chiefly for linings.
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adjective
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Venice
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See Venetian blind
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(sometimes not capital) one of the tapes that join the slats of a Venetian blind
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a cotton or woollen cloth used for linings
Other Word Forms
- non-Venetian adjective
Etymology
Origin of Venetian
1400–50; < Medieval Latin Venetiānus, equivalent to Veneti ( a ) Venice + Latin -ānus -an; replacing Middle English Venicien < Middle French
Example Sentences
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Cooling their heels in a Venetian jail in 1755, Giacomo Casanova and the prisoner in the cell above him contrived one of the more imaginative escapes in the annals of criminology.
The crescent-shaped Venetian lagoon glows in shades of turquoise, revealing the network of islands that form the floating city of Venice along the Adriatic coast.
From Science Daily
Michelangelo remarked of his Venetian colleague, ‘it was a shame that in Venice they did not learn to draw well.’
Venetian painting of the Renaissance is richly, radiantly colored, mainly because it is oil-based, unlike the Florentines’ water-based tempera, which yields a more chromatically subdued result.
Most recently, under the auspices of Venetian Heritage, an international foundation that supports conservation, publications and exhibitions, the painting was intensively studied and worked on.
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