Italianesque, a.
(ɪˌtælɪəˈnɛsk)
[f. Italian + -esque.]
Italian in style or character.
| 1850 Ecclesiologist X. 45 To replace the present Italianesque altar. 1884 H. R. Reynolds in Life xiv. (1898) 349 The picturesque undulations and Italianesque dotting of houses in impossible places. |
Hence Iˌtaliaˈnesquery nonce-wd. [cf. grotesquerie, -ery], work executed in Italian style.
| 1850 Fraser's Mag. XLI. 652 The ‘White Angel’, a close imitation of Browning's Italianesquery. |