Definitions for Italianate

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Italianate I·tal·ian·ate

Spelling: [adjective ih-tal-yuh-neyt, -nit; verb ih-

IPA: /adjective ɪˈtæl yəˌneɪt, -nɪt; verb ɪˈtæl yəˌneɪt/

Italianate is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 240 anagrams from letters in Italianate (aaaeiilntt).

Definitions for Italianate

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)

1. to Italianize.

Origin of Italianate

From the Italian word italianato, dating back to 1560-70. See Italian, -ate¹

Examples for Italianate

The choir stalls (1520-29) are masterpieces; Italianate fawns and Bacchantes are placed beside sacred personages.

One expects a classic severity and simplicity, and instead it is paint and Italianate curves.

There was Blondie on has right and a lovely Italianate brunette on the other side.

Against the fair, boyish face of Nevers you had to set the saturnine Italianate countenance of Gonzague.

Mr. Brokenshire's richly Italianate dwelling was to her just a house.

This was a tall, graceful Italianate man, who carried his fifty years with the grace and ease of thirty.

Mr. Bolster's house was a pretentious building in the Italianate Gothic style, with Byzantine and other features.

There is that Italianate sob in the voice as they demand Poulet roti au salade!

Near the house was an Italianate garden, with balustradings and statuary, and a great wealth of roses and flowering shrubs.

His endeavour has been to be Italianate, and "of all styles I most affect and strive to imitate Aretine's."