The Collaborative International Dictionary
Venetian \Ve*ne"tian\, a. [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.] Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.
Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.
Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.
Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.
Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.
Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.
Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree ( Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.
Wikipedia
Venetian glass is a type of glass object made in Venice, Italy, primarily on the island of Murano. It is world-renowned for being colourful, elaborate, and skillfully made.
Many of the important characteristics of these objects had been developed by the thirteenth century. Toward the end of that century, the centre of the Venetian glass industry moved to Murano.
Byzantine craftsmen played an important role in the development of Venetian glass, an art form for which the city is well known. When Constantinople was sacked by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, some fleeing artisans came to Venice. This happened again when the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453, supplying Venice with still more glassworkers. By the sixteenth century, Venetian artisans had gained even greater control over the colour and transparency of their glass, and had mastered a variety of decorative techniques.
Despite efforts to keep Venetian glassmaking techniques within Venice, they became known elsewhere, and Venetian-style glassware was produced in other Italian cities and other countries of Europe.
Some of the most important brands of glass in the world today, including Venini, Barovier & Toso, Pauly and Seguso, are still produced in the historical glass factories on Murano. Barovier & Toso is considered to be one of the 100 oldest companies in continuous operation in the world, having been founded in 1295.
Usage examples of "venetian glass".
It fell and snapped as if it had been made of the finest Venetian glass.
I've been trying to stalk it, with something stumbling along just behind me that makes more noise than a pair of bull-seals having a territory fight in the middle of a Venetian glass-shop.
She waggled her fingers in a mockery of a good-bye salute, turned her back, and grabbed her keys off a Venetian glass mosaic table.
The stem of the Venetian glass snapped in Isambard's fingers, the delicate bowl shivered among the silver dishes, and wine gushed across the table like blood.
The wooden vessel would not ring as did the Venetian glass of the Earl of Oxford.
One of the bits of Venetian glass standing in the central niche of the lac cabinet at his elbow had lost its handle.
Irene indicated primitive sculpture, Venetian glass, a Monet above the fireplace.
She emerged from the recesses of a carved sideboard clutching a Venetian glass jar.
Instead, he soaked it further in a solution of his own making-as far as I can deduce, a combination of borax, sea salt, fruit gum, quartz and other minerals, and ground, colored Venetian glass.
The old woman's treatment of Dominique had the same reverent caution with which she handled the pieces of Venetian glass in the drawing-room cabinets.