adj. & n.
--adj.
1. of or relating to the Academy della Crusca in Florence, concerned with the purity of Italian.
2 of or concerning a late 18th-c. school of English poets with an artificial style.
--n. a member of the Academy della Crusca or the late 18th-c. school of English poets.
Etymology: It. (Accademia) della Crusca (Academy) of the bran (with ref. to sifting)