Venetian /(?)/
Ve·ne·tian
Venetian
a.
- Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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 closed, 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 talc or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.
- Venetian door
- 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
- a South European tree (Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.
- Venetian window
- a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.
Venetian
n.
- A native or inhabitant of Venice.
- Galligaskins. [Obs.]
- A Venetian blind. [Colloq.]