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Venetian 音标拼音: [vən'iʃən] a. 威尼斯的
n. 威尼斯人 威尼斯的威尼斯人 Venetian adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Venice or its people; " Venetian glass"; " Venetian canals" n 1: a resident of VeniceVenetian \ Ve* ne" tian\, a. [ Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.] Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. [ 1913 Webster] { 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} ( Arch.), 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} ( Bot.), a South European tree ({ Rhus Cotinus}) which yields the yellow dyewood called { fustet}; -- also called { smoke tree}. { Venetian window} ( Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head. [ 1913 Webster]
Venetian \ Ve* ne" tian\, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Venice. [ 1913 Webster] 2. pl. Galligaskins. [ Obs.] [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. A Venetian blind. [ Colloq.] [ Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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