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  • The Split style seems to be a uniform, uh, uniform: a sort of italianate obsession with jeans, sportswear, and glam.

    Lost in Split Heather McDougal 2008

  • The Split style seems to be a uniform, uh, uniform: a sort of italianate obsession with jeans, sportswear, and glam.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • My word, by the way, is comedi -- an italianate spelling of the genre.

    Visitors Bardiac 2009

  • We're subjected to endless quasi-french or italianate absurdities like "grande" and "venti."

    Things I read/watched but don't quite feel like blogging about this morning. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Goethe cultivated a special, italianate hand for this portfolio of twenty-four "elegies," so called because he was emulating the elegiasts of

    Erotica Romana Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1790

  • The moody garden in galveston tx of rotting lucky to holiday ownership of this italianate comeback is another blood of this do-it-yourself.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • One of the italianate multi of des moines lawn and garden show in our sighting democracy is bench and security, an evidence that has surrounded a fungus of a carrying in handy years.

    Wii-volution 2010

  • He did not bray or belt out his high notes but used a stylish voix mixte and his pronunciation was more than respectable though an italianate stress on final syllables did pop up occasionally.

    parterre box 2008

  • 'Luxury villas built in different styles from italianate to business park'

    British Blogs 2008

  • 'Luxury villas built in different styles from italianate to business park'

    Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2008

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