Istrian

The locals used to paint a band of white around their windows and doors to mimic the traditional white Istrian stone frames, which border the windows in the more affluent, neighboring city of Venice.

Awakening the Sleepy Island of Burano Alessia Pirolo 2011

"In time the limestone coast became a granary and vineyard of Venice; Istrian marble would front renaissance palaces on the Grand Canal, Dalmatian pine would plank the Republic's galleys, and its seamen would sail them."

The Doges of War William H. McNeill 2012

At 3:00 A.M., the Athena Team left their hotel and drove toward the tip of the Istrian peninsula.

The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010

There's the Lidia Bastianich northern Italian school, with both Istrian and Italian-American influences.

Ed Levine: Tribeca's Newest Mod-Italian, A Restaurant For The Times 2009

Although the foreign agents are Martians, they are not particularly alien, looking enough like human beings that the Martian leader could call himself Boris and pose as an Istrian.

Hitting "The Barrier" Johnny Pez 2009

He's supposed to be an Istrian -- old Slavonic nobility -- but I have my doubts.

"The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 2 Johnny Pez 2009

The current Palazzo Gradenigo, built of white Istrian limestone and bricks, dates from the mid – 17th century.

Canal Knowledge Tyrnauer, Matt 2007

The road commonly called the Flats, which struck south into the lush farmlands of the Istrian Plain, was crowded.

Spirit Gate 2006

This is what had altered the current: They had reached the Ascent, the slow uplift that marked the end of the Istrian Plain.

Spirit Gate 2006

Indeed, there has, but what was once a killing ground has become a kind of Hobbit's Shire where the people love to eat their home-cured Istrian ham and drink wine made from their own grapes.

Find a Shelter from the Storm 2006