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venetian
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "native or resident of Venice," from Medieval Latin Venetianus , from Venetia (see Venice ). Also probably in part from Old French Venicien . As a kind of dress cloth, from 1710. As an adjective from 1550s. Venetian blinds so called by 1791.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Venetian \Ve*ne"tian\, n. A native or inhabitant of Venice. pl. Galligaskins. [Obs.] A Venetian blind. [Colloq.]
Usage examples of venetian.
The effendi told me that he had found the partner I wanted, and I answered that the musician could be had easily, if he would send a note to the Venetian Embassy, which was done at once.
Marcoline smiled and I answered that she was my cousin, and that we were both Venetians.
She answered all questions to the point, and entertained the company with her remarks on French manners, so different to Venetian customs.
That Ardea should have lost all scruples, and that he should wish to sell his title of a Roman prince at as high a price as possible, to no matter what bidder, is so much the more a matter of indifference, for we Venetians do not allow ourselves to be imposed upon by the Roman nobility.
Such was indeed the story which the Venetian and her friends, Hafner, Ardea, and others, circulated throughout Rome in order to diminish the scandal.
Venetian traveller, visited far Cathay, following somewhat the itinerary of his predecessor, reaching however nearer to Australia than Marco Polo ever did, for, whereas the latter described the Australasian regions only from hearsay, the Franciscan Monk Odoric actually visited Java and some of the islands of the eastern Archipelago.
Disguised as a Venetian nobleman, he proposed to sit for his portrait to that Antonella who first brought the secret from Flanders, and while Antonella worked with unsuspicious openness, Gian Bellini watched the process and stole the secret.
In 1512, when Titian was thirty-five years of age, he was commissioned by the Venetians to continue the works in the great council-hall, which the advanced age of Gian Bellini kept him from finishing.
Italy, a diligent student of the great Italians, especially the Venetians, Correggio, and the Bolognese Eclectics.
Dead Christ in a work by the Venetian painter Paris Bordone, held in the Louvre.
Eugenio has submitted all the requisite papers for a new passport and local visa, has bought him two new silk suits and a handsome woolen Tyrolean duffle coat with a felt borsalino to match, as well as a pair of green knee-high rubber boots to splash about in, has provided him with liniments, medicines, toiletries, and even a wonderful old-fashioned cotton sleeping cap, and has replaced the cracked waterlogged shoes he came here in with three new pairs, custom made from the softest hand-tooled Venetian leather, remarking as he threw out the old ones that they reminded him of those strange stiff shoes made out of tree bark that he used to wear to school.
Prince Charles wrote to tell me that there was no bounds to the care and kindness of my Venetian friends, and that he would be grateful to me for all his days.
Venetian Fra Mauro, of the Camaldolese Convent of San Miguel de Murano, that this commission was entrusted.
Brockhaus, and he had himself examined the numerous papers relating to Casanova in the Venetian archives.
CHILDHOOD by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA de SEINGALT 1725-1798 VENETIAN YEARS, Volume 1b--A CLERIC IN NAPLES THE RARE UNABRIDGED LONDON EDITION OF 1894 TRANSLATED BY ARTHUR MACHEN TO WHICH HAS BEEN ADDED THE CHAPTERS DISCOVERED BY ARTHUR SYMONS.