— Italianately , adv. — Italianation , n.
adj. /i tal"yeuh nayt', -nit/ ; v. /i tal"yeuh nayt'/ , adj., v., Italianated, Italianating .
adj.
1. Italianized; conforming to the Italian type or style or to Italian customs, manners, etc.
2. Art. in the style of Renaissance or Baroque Italy.
3. Archit. 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.
4. to Italianize.
[ 1560-70; italianato. See ITALIAN, -ATE 1 ]