What is another word for Italianate?

Pronunciation: [ˈɪte͡ɪlˌi͡əne͡ɪt] (IPA)

Italianate is an adjective that denotes something that is reminiscent of or derived from Italian art or architecture. Synonyms for Italianate include Venetian, Florentine, Tuscan, Romanesque, and Renaissance, which are all closely related to Italy. Other synonyms that can be used to describe something that is Italianate may include classical, Baroque, neoclassical, ornate, and lavish. When used to describe a style of architecture, Italianate often refers to a building with a prominent roofline, round-headed windows, and decorative brackets. This style was popular in the mid-19th century in the United States and influenced many buildings during that time.

What are the hypernyms for Italianate?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    architecture, revival styles, Historic Styles, Mediterranean Styles, Ornate Style.

Usage examples for Italianate

Each of the rooms of the long Italianate house was filled with curious, rare, and costly works of art, offering many points of interest to the collector and student, and this was specially true of the room in which now sat Richard Maule and Dick Wantele.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The houses of great folk were for the most part on my left-Italianate in design, with the river seen between them, and lesser houses, of the architecture that is called "magpie," on the right.
"Oddsfish!"
Robert Hugh Benson
They were accustomed to see singers in all operas wearing dresses that differed very little from their own, and scenery which recalled their own Italianate gardens and palaces; Handelian opera, in any case, left little scope for what most people now call acting.
"Handel"
Edward J. Dent

Related words: Italianate architecture, Italianate style, Italianate garden, Italianate house, Italianate building, Italian Italianate architecture, Italian style architecture

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