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Tuscan

Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital.

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Italian 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.

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Account verb · 78% connection

to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"

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Apennine adjective · 78% connection

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

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Arc noun · 78% connection

The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the da…

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Art form noun · 78% connection

(architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture)

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Avernian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so mali…

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Borax noun · 78% connection

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…

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Composite verb · 78% connection

Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Ital…

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Cone noun · 78% connection

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

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Crash course noun · 78% connection

a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency); "he took a crash course in Italian on his way…

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Crash program noun · 78% connection

a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency); "he took a crash course in Italian on his way…

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Crash programme noun · 78% connection

a rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency); "he took a crash course in Italian on his way…

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Della Crusca unknown · 78% connection

A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the…

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Describe verb · 78% connection

to give an account or representation of in words; "Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental"

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Doric adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of t…

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Elizabethan adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, l…

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Eros noun · 78% connection

Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodi…

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Euclid's axiom noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) any of five axioms that are generally recognized as the basis for Euclidean geometry

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Euclid's postulate noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) any of five axioms that are generally recognized as the basis for Euclidean geometry

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