I•tal•ian•ate
Pronunciation: (adj.i-tal'yu-nāt", -nitv.i-tal'yu-nāt"), [key] — adj., v., -at•ed, -at•ing.
—adj. - Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
- in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.
- 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.
—v.t. - to Italianize.
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