VENETIAN
Venetian
(adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of Venice or its people; “Venetian glass”; “Venetian canals”
Venetian
(noun) a resident of Venice
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
Venetian (not comparable)
Of, from, or relating to Venice, Italian city.
Noun
Venetian (plural Venetians)
An inhabitant or a resident of Venice and the surrounding area.
(colloquial) A Venetian blind.
(obsolete, in the plural) galligaskins
Proper noun
Venetian
The Romance language spoken mostly in the Veneto region of Italy. It should not be confused with Venetic, an extinct Indo-European Italic language once spoken in the same area.
The form of this language spoken in Venice.
Anagrams
• Aventine
Source: Wiktionary
Ve*ne"tian, a. Etym: [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.]
Definition: Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. Venetian blind, a blind
for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a
certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so
disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of
open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other
positions.
– Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and
stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is
therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.
– Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on
cloth, etc.
– Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or
panes of glass on the sides.
– Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for
decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of
different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental
patterns.
– Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of
iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.
– Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.
– Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree (Rhus Cotinus) which
yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
– Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window
with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window
with a square head.
Ve*ne"tian, n.
Definition: A native or inhabitant of Venice.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition