italianate

Yeah 'italianate' seems to describe the presence of individual design elements more than full blown motifs.

Then gradually, as you continue south, you hear more Italian, see more Italianate architecture and place names.

For that matter, spending that dough on a Vespa would infuse you with an Aperol-tinged Italianate cool.

My reading of the history of fonts suggests some people thought italianate styled writing was a mistake.

Dorchester has its Italianate mansards, as does the South End with its additional Greek Revival and Late Victorian buildings.

Modern urban buildings use the same materials and could easily replicate the Italianate design aesthetic.

Having got bored with the Italianate white/blue combo (or perhaps Jardin Majorelle blue) There is also a natural reaction to do something new, which means rejecting what cam immediately before.

I've walked through ghettos where the buildings have beautiful Italianate brick work that probably cost a fortune to build new.

It isn't like Italianate design isn't particularly expensive: urban American buildings used to be built in that style a lot up until the 1930s.

Many beautiful San Francisco buildings are simple boxes with a Italianate facade.

Our designers and architects have mastered designing the perfect Italianate villas.

Hearing a Purcell piece sung with the English-mangling roundness of vowels required for the italianate style is as disturbing to me as Nixon in China.

TIL that Italianate means "Italian in character or appearance".

The Metreon in San Francisco is a good example, or the ugly “italianate” Geoff Palmer apartment blocks around downtown Los Angeles.

It's probably using "Church" or Italianate Latin -- i.e., Latin as spoken in the Vatican -- as opposed to academic Latin.

Consider Mideval Latin and Church Latin "italianate" pronunciation.

That meant that a Queen Anne might cost considerably less to build than a less ornate Italianate.