italianate

[US]/i'tæljəneit/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. en el estilo de Italia, caracterizado por el estilo italiano.

Phrases & Collocations

Italianate architecture

arquitectura italiana

Italianate design

diseño italiano

Real-world Examples

He awakes the next morning, draws the curtains- and finds himself in a fantastical Italianate village.

Él despierta a la mañana siguiente, abre las cortinas y se encuentra en un fantástico pueblo de estilo italiano.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

The metallic, dull-gold finish clashes with the yellow-ochre stucco of the original building, an Italianate villa.

El acabado metálico, dorado opaco, contrasta con el estuco amarillo ocre del edificio original, una villa de estilo italiano.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Richelieu was such a fan that he had a theater built into his own house, the Palais Cardinal, and made sure there was plenty of Italianate scenery to fill it.

Richelieu era un gran fan, tanto que hizo construir un teatro en su propia casa, el Palais Cardinal, y se aseguró de que hubiera muchos decorados de estilo italiano para llenarlo.

Source: Crash Course in Drama

Gertler, who like Bomberg was on a scholarship supported by the Jewish Education Aid Society, is represented here with clear, pure, Italianate paintings in a vein Tonks would have approved of.

Gertler, que como Bomberg contaba con una beca apoyada por la Sociedad Judía de Ayuda a la Educación, se representa aquí con pinturas claras y puras de estilo italiano, en una línea que Tonks habría aprobado.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Far too many posh metropolitan restaurants share a dreary, trendy predictability, supplying the same gently upbeat music, the same mixture of vaguely Italianate and East Asian dishes, and excessively busy cocktails with poetic or suggestive names.

Demasiados restaurantes metropolitanos elegantes comparten una predecibilidad sombría y moderna, ofreciendo la misma música alegre y suave, la misma mezcla de platos vagamente de estilo italiano y asiático, y cócteles excesivamente elaborados con nombres poéticos o sugerentes.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

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