102Elizabeth absorbed this interest in Italianate culture. From Wordnik.com. [From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558] Reference
"Italianate," her father said, but that was a guess, or a rationalization. From Wordnik.com. ['Home'] Reference
» Toronto’s Twin Italianate Villas • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape. From Wordnik.com. [» Toronto’s Twin Italianate Villas • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape] Reference
As it is, he will always interest a certain number of readers as being, in his languid "Italianate" way, a sort of ineffectual. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
His assimilation of what his Italian colleagues could teach is clear from a suavely modeled, robustly shaded that is, very "Italianate". From Wordnik.com. [Looking North For Beauty] Reference
His office was top-heavy with Italianate knickknacks. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
It was an incongruent term, given his total lack of Italianate qualities. From Wordnik.com. ['Supreme Courtship'] Reference
The picturesque Italianate on First was furnished with Victorian antiques. From Wordnik.com. [Easy to Show] Reference
Somebody like Reginald Marsh -- it's that Italianate thing I don't like. From Wordnik.com. [Brilliance Or Bust] Reference
O'BRIEN: And it started with one Italianate in Newton Center, Massachusetts. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2002] Reference
But Barry was a classicist, a lover of symmetry skilled in Italianate design. From Wordnik.com. [A Victorian Novel in Stone] Reference
The rear of Mercer House was distinctly different from the Italianate facade in front. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
There were more than forty items on the list, all with highly technical Italianate descriptions. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost from the Grand Banks]
It was an Italianate mansion of red brick with tall, arched windows set off by ornate ironwork balconies. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
It wouldn't be out of place on a back lot — some hack studio designer's idea of a Spanish or Italianate villa. From Wordnik.com. [Reconstructing Woody] Reference
In its original form, the two-story, four-bedroom cottage represented the best in Italianate-style architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Jesup Blair Mansion to be renovated] Reference
The Frenchified traveller came in for a good share of satire, but darker things were said of the Italianate Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference
He saw a sullen Italianate-looking man with a broken leg, whom he had no difficulty in identifying as the injured chef. From Wordnik.com. [The Body Ricardo] Reference
The war economy has even fueled a building boom of sprawling Italianate and Swiss-style villas in one of India's poorest states. From Wordnik.com. ['I Call This Kashmir Inc.'] Reference
The Italianate theater's seats were covered with a wood floor and redecorated with modular leather furniture and indigo lighting. From Wordnik.com. [The Fast And The Luxurious] Reference
It's a lovely, 3,400-square foot, 1855 brick Italianate, with 12-foot ceilings and half an acre in town with wonderful neighbors. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For A Perfect Life 'In That House'] Reference
With horror he berated deists, much as Roger Ascham, writing the Schole - master at the same time, did “Italianate Englishmen.”. From Wordnik.com. [DEISM] Reference
It depends how you see these things, but for me, Nine - the revival of the Italianate musical starring Antonio Banderas-is a big laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Antonio Banderas Goes Boompa-Boompa in the Night] Reference
The 1850s Italianate brick house sits on 0.8 acres and has hosted Nancy Reagan among others during Ms. Charles's many decades of ownership. From Wordnik.com. [Tour of Homes] Reference
The 27-room granite and cast iron Italianate mansion, a city, state and federal landmark complete with ivy-covered tower, has seen better days. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Man to the Mansion Born] Reference
As you walk over here, you would look out the window across a woodland to her brother's Austin's house - that Italianate house off in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [A Flowering Tribute To Emily Dickinson] Reference
And we, the lazzaroni on the piazza, can not even see the sky for the mist of 'mottoes Italianate and Spanish terms' of an effete logic that has risen before it. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
She didn't look local, not with those lustrous Italianate features and that complexion, but Peck is unshakably East Anglian and I commented on it while we shook. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
His face had rather an Italianate cast, dark and patrician, extremely attractive; wide, dark brown eyes with long black lashes, a magnificent head of wavy black hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
His most un-Dutch Daimler, his multitasking butler-cum-chauffeur, his Italianate villa in Rotterdam, his lifestyle of calculated excess -- they all set him up for caricature. From Wordnik.com. [Sudden Death] Reference
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