italianate

[US]/i'tæljəneit/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. in the style of Italy, characterized by Italian style.

Phrases & Collocations

Italianate architecture

Italianate design

Real-world Examples

He awakes the next morning, draws the curtains- and finds himself in a fantastical Italianate village.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

The metallic, dull-gold finish clashes with the yellow-ochre stucco of the original building, an Italianate villa.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Richelieu was such a fan that he had a theater built into his own house, the Palais Cardinal, and made sure there was plenty of Italianate scenery to fill it.

Source: Crash Course in Drama

Gertler, who like Bomberg was on a scholarship supported by the Jewish Education Aid Society, is represented here with clear, pure, Italianate paintings in a vein Tonks would have approved of.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Far too many posh metropolitan restaurants share a dreary, trendy predictability, supplying the same gently upbeat music, the same mixture of vaguely Italianate and East Asian dishes, and excessively busy cocktails with poetic or suggestive names.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

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