venetian

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: Ve=ne=tian

CIDE DICTIONARY

venetian, 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.

venetian, n. 

•  A native or inhabitant of Venice.  [1913 Webster]
•  Galligaskins.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A Venetian blind.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

venetian, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a native or citizen of Venice in NE Italy.
2 the Italian dialect of Venice.
3 (venetian) = venetian blind.
--adj. of Venice.

Idiom

venetian blind a window-blind of adjustable horizontal slats to control the light. Venetian glass delicate glassware made at Murano near Venice. Venetian red a reddish pigment of ferric oxides. Venetian window a window with three separate openings, the central one being arched and highest.

Derivative

venetianed adj. (in sense 3 of n.).

Etymology

ME f. OF Venicien, assim. to med.L Venetianus f. Venetia Venice