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Home Dictionary Name: italianateItalianate
To render Italian or conformable to Italian customs to Italianize...
Italianism
A word phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italians an Italicism...
Italicism
A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language to Italianism...
Paolo
An old Italian silver coin worth about ten cents...
Raphaelism
The principles of painting introduced by Raphael the Italian painter...
Quattrocento
The fifteenth century when applied to Italian art or literature as the sculpture of the quattrocento quattrocento style...
Predella
The step or raised secondary part of an altar a superaltar hence in Italian painting a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece...
Pistole
The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon or about 390 and in Germany and Italy nearly the same There was an old Italian pistole worth about 540...
Piazza
An open square in a European town especially an Italian town hence Arch an arcaded and roofed gallery a portico In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda...
Piaster
A silver coin of Spain and various other countries See Peso The Spanish piaster commonly called peso or peso duro is of about the value of the American dollar The Italian piaster or scudo was worth from 80 to 100 cents The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents...
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