How To Use Venetian In A Sentence
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The wall paper and carpets are mostly green, coeval with the gasalier and the Venetian blinds.
The Doctor's Dilemma
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When you hear the words, " adventure travel" , perhaps you think ofthe Venetian merchant Marco Polo, the distinguished African explorer David Livingstone, or North Pole adventurer Robert Peary.
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A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat.
"Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
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The house that he occupied, of Venetian design, and four stories in height, bore many architectural marks of distinction, such as the floriated window, the door with the semipointed arch, and medallions of colored marble set in the walls.
The Financier
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A broadtail lace evening coat was paired with a Venetian blue blouse and metal plisse skirt.
Joey Jalleo: Inside Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2009: Third Row at Calvin
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Venetian dromond was to other merchant-ships as the dromedary to other camels.
Masters of the Guild
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Venetians cheered from the rooftops as the docks burnt but the medieval city escaped damage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or just how fabulous the bedrooms in a Venetian palazzo are?
Times, Sunday Times
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No expense had been spared, and the walls, as in a Venetian palazzo, were covered in rich damasked silk.
A Penchant for Dreaming
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Reflecting the countrywide trend, more Venetians are dying than are being born.
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The Venetian government and the confraternities were the most significant patrons, and their commissions to Venetian artists created a Venetian stylistic tradition.
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But mine was momentarily dumbstruck when, after his talk, I passed through a doorway inside the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and entered an air-conditioned simulation of the Grand Canal.
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Bassanio, a noble but poor Venetian, asks his friend Antonio, a rich merchant, for 3,000 ducats to enable him to prosecute fittingly his suit of the rich heiress Portia at Belmont.
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Even the moneys of Cyprus were flowing somewhat overfreely into the coffers of the Venetian Provveditori who kept vigilant watch over the island kingdom -- which was, in truth, no longer anything but a Venetian province, except in name.
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus
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First, identification of Turkish toponyms with those in the Venetian documents permits us to locate all the toponyms found in the Venetian sources.
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Meantime, the Spanish Colunellas, in which the Spanish put most of their faith, approached the Venetian line of arquebus and cannon defending the hill and central wood.
Archive 2008-01-01
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I suspect some of the lace on sale is manufactured by Chinese peasants copying Burano-Venetian lace patterns.
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She moved off with her book to a window; shut herself out from the room, and into the storm, with a heavy fall of curtains; and Nelly's voice rippled through a tripping, Venetian barcarole.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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With the neo-Venetian revival of the early seicento, artists and critics participated in various ways in the reinvigoration of Venetian style.
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The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
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At dusk, I like sitting on the bank of the Grand Canal listening to the soft splashes of water against the ancient Venetian stones.
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In 1204 the Crusaders and Venetians attacked Constantinople and sacked the city.
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In the afternoone we went to see the towne of Parenzo, it is a pretie handsome towne, vnder the Venetians.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Sightseers will be able to hire boats, resembling Venetian gondolas, to take trips on the canal.
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Returning on the boat we were discussing the Venetian gondoliers.
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Gondoliers in Venetian clothing propel the boats, which were used for centuries as the chief means of transportation within Venice, Italy, through the water with a single oar.
Journey to Amore With a Venetian Gondola Getaway
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Given all these and other dramatic qualifications of Venetian courtesy, playgoers are not surprised when the dynamics of sadism and persecution in The Merchant of Venice challenge its authenticity.
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Venetian ambassador, first mentioned the project to his signory November
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
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Leufroid, who called him his crony, and would have done anything for him, the Venetian conceived the idea of getting rid of his friend by revealing to the king the mystery of his cuckoldom, and showing him the source of the queen's happiness, not doubting for a moment but that he would commence by depriving Monsoreau of his head, according to a practice common in Sicily under similar circumstances.
Droll Stories — Volume 3
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The Italian crew will row their flagship, the Disdotona, on the way back from the Henley Regatta, accompanied by two Venetian racing fours.
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One such confection is the Venetian dessert tiramisu, meaning pick-me-up, which involves first creaming the mascarpone with yolks of egg and a little fresh cream, and then incorporating whipped whites of egg.
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Rubbing alcohol does a terrific job of cleaning the slats of venetian blinds.
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This definition for ‘hose’ on this site says that ‘men [wore] hose in two parts… The upper hose have a number of fashionable variations including French ‘round’ hose, trunk hose, slops, venetians, canions, and galligaskins.’
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Venetian noblesse, with their cool porticos and colonnades, overhung with poplars and cypresses of majestic height and lively verdure; on their rich orangeries, whose blossoms perfumed the air, and on the luxuriant willows, that dipped their light leaves in the wave, and sheltered from the sun the gay parties whose music came at intervals on the breeze.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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I always keep an eye out for digital archives that might contain Venetian material.
Veniceblog:
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Fine-slatted Venetian blinds show off the tall sash windows, which are too elegant to be obscured by curtains.
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A triple purpose was thus served, -- the Venetian merchants were protected in their lives and goods, the national honor was saved from insult, and many an honest zecchino was turned by the innkeepers and others who lodged and entertained the customers of the merchants.
Venetian Life
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Put simply, polarisation works like a venetian blind to cut reflection from above and below yet still allow clear vision.
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You can spend your day meandering through the maze-like cobbled paths that are lined with picturesque Venetian-style houses painted in rainbow pastels.
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In Austria and neighboring regions, glassmaking enjoyed royal patronage and the Venetian style was introduced with royal support.
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It may be as well to mention an early Venetian design of about 1475 wherein the Emperor has a three-pointed trifoliate crown surmounted by a trefoil.
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Her book opens with a discussion of the changing understanding of the notion of nobility, and the ways in which the aspirations of the Venetian patriciate towards nobility developed during the course of the renaissance.
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The Victorian steam yacht was originally designed in the form of a Venetian gondola and was first launched in 1859 on Coniston Water.
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I had scarcely settled down comfortably in my rooms, the northerly aspect of which exposed them to frequent gusts of wind (from which I had practically no protection in the form of heating appliances), and had barely got over the demoralising effect of dysentery, when I fell a victim to a specific Venetian complaint, namely a carbuncle on my leg, as the result of the extreme change of climate and of air.
My Life — Volume 2
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The outcry follows a Venetian protest march against the waves of tourists overwhelming their city.
Times, Sunday Times
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Review: Biography: Polo reminted: A study that strips away the myths to let us see the great Venetian traveller afresh delights Kevin Rushby: Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen 448pp, Quercus, pounds 19.99
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, by Laurence Bergreen
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The Venetian republic forbade its citizen nobles (those who sat in the Consiglio Maggiore) from assuming titles such as prince, duke, marquis, or count.
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This noble Venetian Dame then exhibited, beneath an old white satin bedgown, made to cover her arms and breast, the dress in which she had equipped herself, between the acts, to be ready for trampling home; namely, a dirty red and white linen gown, an old blue stuff quilted coat, and black shoes and stockings.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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After many years of vagabondage he was found mysteriously drowned in a Venetian canal in 1772.
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91 The light brigantines of the Greeks were scattered in ignominious flight: the nine castles of the Venetians maintained a more obstinate conflict; seven were sunk, two were taken; two thousand five hundred captives implored in vain the mercy of the victor; and the daughter of Alexius deplores the loss of thirteen thousand of his subjects or allies.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The form and scale of the building recalls ancient Venetian palazzi, but it is treated in a more abstract, contemporary fashion, with an emphasis on the flatness of the external surface.
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Sailors on shore leave walk through the weathered Venetian old town, quaffing beer or haggling over souvenirs or avoiding the pitch of waiters trying to lure them into seaside cafés.
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A Venetian nobleman, who had, on some late occasion, provoked the hatred of Orsino, had been way-laid and poniarded by hired assassins: and, as the murdered person was of the first connections, the Senate had taken up the affair.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Candlestick stems are topped with silk shades, wall lights are backed with Venetian mirrors and slender brass stems are capped by plated shades.
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He also recounts aspects of Venetian history with verve.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Venetian art was more painterly than the sculptural art of central Italy, and artists used light and colour more dramatically; Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese developed the expressive power and illusionism of oil painting.
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In 1557 the Venetian ambassador, Giovanni Michiel, wrote a lengthy report on the appearance and personality of Queen Mary I, that has become a valuable source in the examination of this figure.
Archive 2009-08-01
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Rooms are just as elegant thanks to marble baths, parquet floors and Venetian chandeliers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside, the public rooms were sumptuously decorated in the florid style of old Venice with arching, beamed ceilings, sconced walls covered with opulent moire silks, and lush color everywhere - the wholly Venetian shades of blue, green, yellow and burnt orange.
The Kaisho
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Just the pampered young minion of any Tuscan court, a precocious wrappage of wit, good manners, and sensibility, he looked what he spoke, the exquisite Florentine, to these broad-vowelled Venetian lasses; did not smile, but seemed never out of temper; and was certainly not timid.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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Do Mori sells cicchetti, the Venetian version of tapas: baby artichokes in season, slices of pecorino or polenta, tomato bruschetta, boiled salt cod mashed with oil to make a paste and spread on toast.
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We easily transformed the spelling into "gondola," and in fancy were afloat on Venetian waters, under some overhanging balcony, perhaps at the very Palace of the Doges, -- willingly blind to the reality of a mudscow leaning against some rickety wharf posts, covered with barnacles.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)
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In fact, instead of conventional wings, Smith went for 120 slats like a venetian blind.
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Candelabras and aromatherapy candles are lit in the evening and reflect spectacularly in the large Venetian mirror.
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I suppose your Slav and your Anglo-Saxon have no prejudices, and that they share their Venetian with a dilettanteism quite modern.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Lining one side of the Forum are stone Medusa faces with eyes that still bedevil the onlooker, whilst at the far end, under a columned portico, the remains of a Roman bar recall present-day cafes in Florentine or Venetian piazzas.
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With Charlotte Legge and Kate Braine's royal connections Ms. Legge is the daughter of the Earl of Dartmouth and Raine Spencer, Princess Diana's stepmother; Ms. Braine is a well-known sculptress and London social figure, it wasn't long before their oversized rings made of handblown Venetian glass became a must-have in smart circles.
Adding Jewels to Their Crowns
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In time the French Crusaders received papal absolution for their part in the business at Zara, but the Venetians did not.
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The exhibition will also explore the influence of Venetian masters Titian and Tintoretto and will include work by Canaletto.
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I've never been to Tuscany, haven't floated down a canal in a Venetian gondola, nor thrown a coin into the Trevi Fountain.
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The windows of his new room were fitted with green venetians; round the verandah-posts twined respectively a banksia and a Japanese honey-suckle, which further damped the glare; while on the patch of buffalo-grass in front stood a spreading fig-tree, that leafed well and threw a fine shade.
Australia Felix
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On returning from Leoben, a conqueror and pacificator, he, without ceremony, took possession of Venice, changed the established government, and, master of all the Venetian territory, found himself, in the negotiations of Campo
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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Glass from La Granja carried on many of the classic Venetian techniques such as latticinio (threads of opaque glass embedded in clear glass).
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M. de Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 03: Military Career
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Otherwise use Venetian blinds in plastic or wood which can be easily wiped, or wooden shutters, or no covering at all.
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He also called them his Venetian porches - a clear reference to the jalousies, or louvered blinds, that constitute the walls.
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Cornaro, auditor of the 'rota', with the intention of making my way into good society, but fearing lest he as a Venetian might get compromised, he introduced me to Cardinal Passionei, who spoke of me to the sovereign pontiff.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
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Venetian senator, the gloomy "magnifico" of St. Mark, have consented to
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
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Titian, which is dark and grimy, is quite pleasing, the infant Christ, who stands between S. Andrew and S. Catherine on a little pedestal, being very real and Venetian.
A Wanderer in Venice
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Bonneval happened to mention the dance called forlana, and Ismail expressing a great wish to know it, I told him that I could give him that pleasure if I had a Venetian woman to dance with and a fiddler who knew the time.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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He began to serve as a privateer in the Ottoman Navy as a youth and after many years of fighting against Spanish, Genoese and Venetian navies, he rose to the rank of Reis (Admiral).
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Venetian glass
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The galleys with which the Greeks fought the Persians in classical times were not so different from those with which the Venetians fought the Ottomans 2,000 years later.
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I have trolled Rodeo Drive, Worth Avenue, and upper Madison Avenue and traveled to Las Vegas, where I stood agog for hours in the Bellagio and Venetian hotels.
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Shopping Secrets Wherever you stay you will find the Venetian glass and lace industries still thrive.
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The lavish wedding celebrations of the period were marked by extravagant gifts, such as maiolica decorated with narratives or portraits; rare Venetian glassware; rings (including one of the earliest known diamond wedding rings) and other jewelry; delicate gilded boxes; and vividly painted cassoni, or bridal chests, which would be filled with costly linens and clothing.
Undefined
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From the end of 1796 the Venetian Senate secretly continued its armaments, and the whole conduct of that Government announced intentions which have been called perfidious, but the only object of which was to defeat intentions still more perfidious.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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One ingredient of Venetian success was national unity.
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He also recounts aspects of Venetian history with verve.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Venetian ceramics, textiles, sculpture, enamels and glass will also be on view.
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Paintings from the National Gallery's collections, including a "Judith With the Head of Holofernes," attributed to Mantegna, and a portrait of a Venetian gentleman on which Giorgione and the young Titian both worked, at once suggest the currency of Tullio's distinctive approach in the early cinquecento and how that approach was formed.
Tenderness Out of Stone
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Shape glass tiles and tesserae, smalti, and Venetian glass for mosaic work.
Random feeds from Syndic8.com
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It was a Venetian scene, with a perfectly splendid marble palazzo.
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Maybe we could tell readers that cricket is a game played in trench coats, in dingy offices lit by neon signs blinking through venetian slats.
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As Venetian power grip on trade routes and its importance as a major center of commerce began to vanish, so did its monopoly power in glassmaking.
Glasses Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Venetian art is so supple, sensual, lavish with colour: and so anarchic with the rules of genre.
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Under the Venetian domination the schismatics were dependent on a protopapas who in turn depended on the Patriachate of Constantinople.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The European territories of the earlier empire were divided between the Greek despotate of Epirus and the Greek duchy of Neopatras (Thessaly, Locris), the Latin duchy of Athens, the Latin principality of Achaea, and the Venetian duchy of the Archipelago.
F. The Byzantine Empire
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I made notes like "men speaking in Venetian dialect", thinking it would be super-useful for authentic period background chatter, only to discover (of course) that there isn't an Italian word in the film, other than "Casanova".
Veniceblog:
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The hall was lit by elaborate pendant candelabra, with shades of Venetian glass, many of which were brought to Bhuj by Ram Singh himself.
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The archducal court did not wish to enforce the agreement because they used the Uskoks as a defense system for their Croatian territories and for the purpose of curbing Venetian demands on land and sea.
The Uskok �Problem� and Habsburg, Venetian, and Ottoman Relations at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
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Read in the context of Carpaccio's Hunting on the lagoon and the Two Venetian ladies, Parabosco's text seems to provide the perfect gloss to the material and psychological issues the painting presents.
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Rather like the Venetians - the difference being that Venice went on evolving: its Byzantine ogees and trefoils made room for Palladio and all that.
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Francesca Bortolotto Possati Venice Venetian hotelier, vintner and philanthropist Francesca Bortolotto Possati , a third generation owner of the Bauer hotel, has just opened her newest property, the Villa F., a luxuriously restored 16th-century villa on the Giudecca.
Lunch, Italian Style
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On his return to Amsterdam by c. 1562, he became one of the earliest artists to introduce to the Netherlands the rich colours and painterly brushwork of Venetian painting.
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Her double-height central hall was dressed with trophies of arms, and two wall cases containing Venetian glass and Limoges enamels were flanked by maiolica ceramics mounted on the wall.
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As 10 per cent owner of Venetian Macau, he said he had to put up a proportional share of the company's initial capital of 200 million patacas.
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Followed by Fortunée's blinking husband Hamelin dressed as a Venetian gondoliere and a pretty little man dressed as a jester — Captain Charles?
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
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And below it, a lovely Venetian window, complete with stone tracery, which used to look out on some view of the Temple of Aesculapius, perhaps; but now it is filled in by a modern window-frame which looks through the same window in the opposite direction, out into the alleyway which, perhaps, used to be a corridor.
Inside, Outside, Upside Down (And Inside Out)
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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Man and morality, however, disappearing at intervals, the acanthine capitals have a kind of later Venetian beauty about them, as the Venetian birds also, the conventional peacocks, or birds wholly of fantasy, amid the long fantastic foliage.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
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Roman outline with Venetian color; but love is fatal to his work, love not merely transfixes his heart, but sends his arrow through the brain, deranges the course of his life, and sets the victim describing the strangest zigzags.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
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Byron's enthusiastic exploration of the Venetian fleshpots eventually scuppered his relationship with Marianna Segati and her husband.
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Venetian is no respecter of species; and when an Italian "ornithologist
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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Early in the novel, we're given some backstory: how deepsmen and Venetians clashed centuries earlier, how the deepsmen got the better of the landsmen, forcing them to accept a mermaid Queen, and after subsequent generations of inter-breeding, deepsman/landsman hybrids ruling every country.
Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009)
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The Venetians knew to keep a wary eye on Spanish imperial ambitions.
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In 1559, a Venetian government official transcribed a report by a Persian traveller who observed the popular Chinese pastime of drinking tea.
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Theo, who tried to sit quietly while Teddy painted his face with Venetian ceruse, announced, “The queen is with child.”
Exit the Actress
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Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings.
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The Florentines recalled the marquis of Ferrara, and engaged the marquis of Mantua; they also as earnestly requested the Venetians to send them Count Carlo, son of
The History of Florence
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Saracens; fourthly and fifthly, the Ottoman Turks and Venetians; sixthly, the Latin princes of Constantinople -- not to speak seventhly and eighthly of Albanian or Egyptian Ali Pashas, or ninthly, of Joseph Humes and Greek loans, is now, viz., in March, 1844, alive and kicking.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
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The figure of Justice as a symbol of the chief virtue of the Venetian republic, or as a representation of the republic itself, also goes back at least to the trecento.
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This gave rise to a whole new style of English glassware quite distinct from intricate Venetian fashions.
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At this time nothing seemed to interest him more than the account of the two Giants Causeways, or groups of pris - matic basaltine columns, in the Venetian states, in Italy, in fhe LXVth. volume of the Philosophical Transactions, com -
The general biographical dictionary. Revised by A. Chalmers
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A sanding process introduced between each application of thin pigment produces colorful sweeps of minuscule dots that evoke barnacles and algae as well as the millefiori patterns found on Venetian glass paperweights.
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In September a sirocco blew out of Africa, and a Venetian galleass made ready to run for the Adriatic.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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As for thine eyes, shut them and turne them aside from these venereous Venetian obiects.
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Made from a voile fabric in a honeycombed Venetian style, these blinds create a lovely window feature, while allowing diffused light to get through.
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Venetian blinds, although not as effective as draperies, can be adjusted to let in some light and air while reflecting the sun's heat.
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The Venetian anted up $30 million in construction costs, the aforementioned $8.6 million in start-up costs and additional money for exhibition design.
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City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas" celebrates the Stato da Mar to give the Venetian empire its proper name from its beginning in 1000 till 1503, whereafter Ottoman sea power redirected Venetian expansion to northern Italy.
The Doges of War
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In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators.
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One almost expects to see some little Disney-like figures of our presidents on the mantlepiece, and some Venetian blinds at the windows.
Joan Z. Shore: A French Oval Office: Fit for a King
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Ancient sovereignties such as the Holy Roman Empire and the Venetian Republic were destroyed: nearly 60 per cent of Germans changed rulers during the Revolution.
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By 1407, the Venetian government was paying all the expenses of the studio, had abolished competing schools in Treviso and Vicenza, and had instated a fine of 500 ducats for subjects who studied elsewhere.
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Paintings from the National Gallery's collections, including a "Judith With the Head of Holofernes," attributed to Mantegna, and a portrait of a Venetian gentleman on which Giorgione and the young Titian both worked, at once suggest the currency of Tullio's distinctive approach in the early cinquecento and how that approach was formed.
Tenderness Out of Stone
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Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting" is the rare opportunity to see Titian's stellar "Diana and Actaeon" and "Diana and Callisto" side by side.
Motherwell and Modern Life
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A central aim of the book is to explore what is Venetian about the Venetian domestic environment and its furnishings, and this calls for the extensive quarrying and analysis of textual materials.
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Back then, he sold custom picture framing, table pads, venetian blinds, window shades and did glass installations.
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To remove mildew stains from Venetian blinds, mix together some fine emery powder and linseed oil.
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The staff are entering into the spirit and designing a crew outfit for the occasion based on Venetian boatmen complete with ribbons and sashes.
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His latest work concentrates on geometric forms, especially from Venetian floor designs.
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In Austria and neighboring regions, glassmaking enjoyed royal patronage and the Venetian style was introduced with royal support.
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The loss of the Fenice, where five of Verdi's operas premiered, is a catastrophe for Venetians.
The City of Falling Angels: Summary and book reviews of The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt.
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Consider fitting an antique Venetian mirror on a mirrored bathroom wall.
Times, Sunday Times
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The outcry follows a Venetian protest march against the waves of tourists overwhelming their city.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taylor Tiles sells Bisazza's range, including its individual 20 mm x 20 mm, handmade glass tesserae, where gold leaf is sandwiched between two layers of Venetian glass.
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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His vesper psalms were important for establishing the practice of writing for double choir, which was to become a special feature of Venetian music.
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In a defensive capriccio of the period, the artist presents himself as a Venetian nobleman in a classical courtyard reminiscent of Sansovino's old library in Venice.
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The additional trees and shrubs in flower are the tamarisk, altheas, Venetian sumach, pomegranates, the beautiful passion-flower, the trumpet flower, and the virgin's bower or clematis, which is such a quick and handsome climber.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827
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Venetian painters had pioneered the poetic narrative scene involving two or three half-length figures, but in the "Gypsy Fortune-Teller" and the "Cardsharps" both 1595, Caravaggio gave the genre a streamlined, streetwise spin—Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it "low-life drama.
The Misery Memoirist
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And a steamer leaves several times a day to take you there, gently and loiteringly, in the Venetian manner, in two hours, with pauses at odd little places _en route_.
A Wanderer in Venice
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The mass setting is Palestrina's Missa Tu es Petrus, and the offertory motet is an 8-part Venetian setting of Iubilate Deo by Giovanni Gabrieli.
Update on Some Liturgical Details for the Installation of Archbishop Vincent Nichols
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Meanwhile, Agnes begins to rethink her decision while visiting the handsome doctor in his splendid Venetian mansion.
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Matteo Borrini, who recently excavated an "exorcised" skull from a 16th-century grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, discusses the reality behind belief in malicious, pestilent plague vampires
Uncanny Archaeology
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Now Madrid's Prado Museum is making up for lost time; though "Tintoretto" (through May 13) has left the master's massive religious narratives bolted to their Venetian walls, it brings together 49 other paintings in the first comprehensive show of his work in Spain, and the first significant exhibition outside Venice since 1937.
The View From Venice
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If there's any shred of lingering doubt that Tokyo's cooks can be more bravissimo than thou, it's removed by a giant platter of Venetian glass displayed at Passo a Passo.
Risotto Rising
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I like that chap's style -- what I call thoroughly Venetian.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892
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Senior Editor Samir S. Patel spoke with University of Florence forensic anthropologist and archaeologist Matteo Borrini after the meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Science in Denver, where he presented an "exorcised" skull from a plague grave on the Venetian island of Lazzaretto Nuovo.
Plague Vampire Exorcism
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Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
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In the next few years Campanella found himself in trouble with the Venetian and Roman Inquisitions, abjuring his heresies in Rome in May 1594.
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The Venetians will be following the route used by gondolas chosen by Charles II to escort his Royal barge in 1662 from Hampton Court to Whitehall.
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It played Guantanamera and had plastic awningsseparating us from the road, but served the most delicious fried courgettes, pork souvlaki and local Robola white wine (no need for retsina here: Kefalonia produces Greece's best wine, a legacy of the Venetians).
Empty beaches and great deals in Greece
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But mine was momentarily dumbstruck when, after his talk, I passed through a doorway inside the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and entered an air-conditioned simulation of the Grand Canal.
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The same brass candle cylinders and Venetian chifforobes are arranged in unswept rooms where wallpaper has been stripped and never replaced and where wooden floors remain unfinished.
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The light pastel lacquer and subtly spaced designs lacked the finesse of Venetian lacquer, but the rendering of flowers and birds was worthy of an easel painting.
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With the collapse of the Venetian Republic in 1797, the Murano glassworks fell into decline.
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It was just the life he loved, the ideal life, and it wasn't costing him a cent -- no, not a _soldo_, to speak more in the Venetian manner.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction
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The adoption of fusionist policies by Lombards and Venetians alike proved futile.
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His father had equipped seven hundred heavy men at arms for him, and, August 18th, the Venetian ambassador reported to the signory that he had been requested by the Pope to ask the Doge to withdraw their protection from
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
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She despised her upper-class, convention-bound Venetian upbringing, and could escape only in the fantastic stories that her beloved Barbary told her of exotic places and other gods, unruled by men and custom.
So It Wasn't Jealousy After All?
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Human languages fall into four groups: inflecting ones as in Anglo-American, positional as in Chinese, agglutinative as in Old Turkish, polysynthetic (sentence units) as in Eskimo-to which, of course, we now add alien structures as wildly odd and as nearly impossible for the human brain as non-repetitive or emergent Venetian.
Double Star
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This caused the Venetian government to seize their treasure and to commission the statues as a cautionary, perpetual reminder that fratricide is considered very, very rude in that part of the world.
The Shoe That Went Missing for 761 Years
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Inorganic mercury poisoning historically has been linked to Roman slaves, who were exposed to mercury vapor while mining in Spain, and to Venetian mirror makers and the hatters of London.
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At the same time, new actors discovered in Rome also perform on this cinquecento Venetian stage.
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The Venetian comedy also includes a pair of social parasites living off the prodigality of the extravagant young couple.
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Orpiment and realgar are yellow and orange mineral species of arsenic sulphide, used in 16th-century Venetian painting particularly, but at various other times also.
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Strangely, it was on the pages of an imported art form that fantastic sea creatures entered the vocabulary of artists working on the Venetian lagoon.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I at once announced my return to Cornelius by sending him a small Venetian gondola, which I had bought for him in Venice, and to which I added a canzona written with nonsensical Italian words.
My Life — Volume 2
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Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13 th century and served Kublai Khan ( 1254 - 1324 ).
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He was a larger-than-life character who went on to build a replica of Venice - including a Grand Canal, with gondolas - inside his new hotel, the Venetian.
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Beginning in the sixteenth century, the Venetians engraved some of their glasses using a tool with a diamond tip.
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Google unveiled this logo to celebrate the 400th anniversary since Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer, showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope.
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The spectacle of a lady of mature years and more than generous integumental upholstery dying of consumption was more than the Venetian sense of humor could endure with equanimity.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Next time you see a Venetian window, a triangular pediment, a coved gallery ceiling, or a Georgian terrace with lined stucco, remember who started it all.
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The design elements include gentlemen's classics such as tufted wing chairs, antique lighting, Venetian glass mirrors and velvet seats with carved and gilded details.
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The beds are four-posters, the mirrors venetian, the rugs Aubusson and every room is filled with beautiful objects.
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He offers six varieties of crudo, the Venetian-inspired take on sashimi that's currently ubiquitous on Manhattan menus.
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I put in only plants and trees that have always been present in other Venetian gardens: jasmine, roses, and lavender, and such herbs as rosemary, mint, sage, and santolina, a medicinal plant.
Canal Knowledge
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But he did well enough to allow them to move up to a handsome two-story house in Venetian Isles with a dock on the canal.
Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans
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In 1591 Bruno returned to Italy after being invited by the Venetian nobleman Zuane Mocenigo to educate the aristocrat in mnemonics.
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Corners of silver scrollwork, linked together by bands and clasps of the same metal, adorned its surface, and over the glowing red of its Venetian leather binding, lambs, lions, eagles, doves, and pelicans stood lucently embossed, bearing upon their well-drilled shoulders the sacred emblems and mottoes of the ecclesiastical party.
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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But the Venetian recipe bestows real status on this humble ingredient by cooking it in almond milk, adding hot fat, then serving it with roast goose and a caramel-colored sauce made from the goose liver pounded with egg yolk, vinegar, and agresto—the sour grape condiment known as verjuice in English.
Delizia!
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Originally they were created to keep one's feet out of the dirt and mud on the streets, but Venetian courtesans adopted an extravagant form of chopine as their trademark.
Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves
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The Luxury und Desire of Rococo: Duke Carl Eugens Venetian Fair" exhibits Rococo style porcelain and Venetian masks collected by Duke Carl Eugen of Wuertemberg on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory.
Time Off Europe Calendar
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The Venetian has gondolas with gondoliers who imitate Italian accents.
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The once-magnificent day of the Ascension the Venetians now honor by closing all shop-doors behind them and putting all thought of labor out of their minds, and going forth to enjoy themselves in the mild, inexplosive fashion which seems to satisfy Italian nature.
Venetian Life
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To remove mildew stains from Venetian blinds, mix together some fine emery powder and linseed oil.
