florentine in English

adjective
1
of or relating to Florence.
Not only do the voices in the journal bear no mark of an illiterate 16 th-century shepherd or 15 th-century Florentine teenager; they do not even sound like the voice of an early 20 th-century art historian.
2
(of food) served or prepared on a bed of spinach.
eggs florentine
noun
1
a native or citizen of Florence.
But if the Florentines of today can call upon the ingenuity of their predecessors, not the least of them Leonardo, they will find the solutions, and the lady may yet achieve another brilliant rebirth.
2
a cookie consisting mainly of nuts and preserved fruit, coated on one side with chocolate.
While Lippi was completing the Strozzi commission, Florentines were listening to Savonarola inveighing against the deceitful seductions of modern painters.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "florentine" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "florentine", or refer to the context using the word "florentine" in the English Dictionary.

1. Ay! perchance had seen the heavens opening, as they opened to the Florentine.

2. Michelangelo features a lobby showcased by rich Venetian and Florentine fabrics.

3. It was decorated by Florentine artists like Agnolo Gaddi and Niccolò Gerini.

4. Instead, her life could be seen as an ideal model for Florentine penitential women.

5. Invectively criticize virosis Animalises florentine murderously snakiest snores Bengt horrified immovably perspectival sinecures

6. A bright piece of Florentine Bargello needle work from the 1960s or 70s

7. Hell may be eternal, but a modern hell would be altogether different from the Florentine abyss.

8. Florentine blinds or jalousies; Outside screens; Awnings or Baldachins of flexible canopy materials, e.g

9. So he sent him to a branch of the great Florentine banking house of the Bard.

10. Edward defaulted on Florentine loans of 1,365,000 florins, resulting in the ruin of the lenders.

11. 15 The famous panels were transported there and were enriched with Florentine mosaics representing the five senses.

12. So do Florentine officials who are preparing to fete the birthday boy in his birthday suit.

13. Leonardo Bruni was the first historian to use tripartite periodization in his History of the Florentine People (1442).

14. The Cognoscenti's Guide to Florence: Shop and Eat Like a Florentine, Revised Edition (Pocket size, 8 walking tours showcasing the best shops

15. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.

16. Examples from Classical Literature I am sick of chattering, playing dice, going to Bawdy houses, and making vain reports to the Florentine Wool-staplers

17. It was designed by Tommaso Francini, a Florentine fountain maker and hydraulic engineer who was brought from Florence to France by King Henry IV.

18. La Seu historical museum has the following outstanding pieces: The Holy Christ of Manresa (12th century), the Florentine altar front (14th century) and holy relic...

19. Consortia put together by a royal treasury official and composed mainly of Genoese and Florentine bankers in Sevilla (Seville) provided at least 1,140,000 maravedis to outfit the expedition, and Columbus

20. Napoleon Bonaparte was born as Napoleone Buonaparte, the second son of a Corsican family with dual Italian heritage: his father Carlo descended from Francesco Buonaparte, a Florentine who had emigrated in the mid-sixteenth century

21. The Cognoscenti's Guide to Florence: Shop and Eat Like a Florentine, Revised Edition (Pocket size, 8 walking tours showcasing the best shops, full-color photos) [Fili, Louise, Apatoff, Lise] on Amazon.com

22. Academism is the painting in the manner of some one else, whether that other be Greek or Florentine, [… 1935 , “The Artist and His Means of Expression”, in The Canadian Author , volume 13-15, Canadian Authors Association, page 11:

23. ‘The question of stylistic eclecticism and deliberate Archaism also appears in Bergstein's book on the Florentine sculptor Nanni di Banco.’ ‘For example, Delany faults Forster, finding he clings in the end ‘to Archaism and nostalgia while failing to engage the contemporary passions of the ordinary citizen’.’

24. 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎[1], page R28: [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine Bibliophile and friend of Petrarch

25. Forsooth a great Arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine A fellow almost damned in a fair wife, That never set a squadron in the field Nor the division of battle knows More than a spinster--unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the togaed consuls can propose As masterly as he.

26. ‘The Columned lobby which doubles as the main office, spells opulence.’ ‘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.’

27. Achaian League or the American Union can hardly call forth either that feeling of hereditary loyalty which attaches to kings descended from Alfred or Saint Lewis, or that burning patriotism which the Athenian or the Florentine felt for the city in which his whole political and personal being found its home

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