Tuscanadj.n.

/ˈtʌskən/

Forms: Also 1500s Tuskan(e, Thuscane, 1500s–1600s Tuscane, 1500s–1700s Thuscan; 1500s Toscane, Thoscan, Thoskan, 1600s Toscan.

Etymology: = French Tuscan, -ane, Italian Toscano, < late Latin Tuscānus of or belonging to the Tuscī or Thuscī, a people of ancient Italy (called also Etruscī Etruscans), plural of Tuscus adjective and noun, an ethnic name.

A. adj.

a. In reference to ancient times = Etruscan adj.

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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Italy > [adjective]

Tuscan1513

Vestinian1578

Oscian1598

Sabine1600

Marrucine1601

Volscian1601

Ausonian1607

Marsian1614

Marrucian1661

Oscan1661

Paelignian1661

Samnite1753

Samnitic1753

Sabellian1841

Marrucinian1863

Venetic1880

Sabinian1902

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xii. 3 The Tuscane Dukis and horsmen.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tuskan tongue or language.

1587 W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 100 Also Horatius that did alone defend the bridge aganis the Thoskan force.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. 340 He was taught the Tuscane learning and knowledge.

1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) i. 72 Great Vesta, Romulus, and Patriot Gods, Who guard Imperial Rome, and Tuscan Floods.

1706 Smith in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 14 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 312 The old Thuscan language.

1843 T. B. Macaulay Horatius xxxv The Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold.

b. Of or pertaining to Tuscany, formerly a grand duchy, having Florence as its capital; now a region of the Italian Republic, nearly corresponding to the ancient Etruria.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > parts of

Tuscanish1580

Tuscan1588

Umbrian1601

Emilian1660

Piedmontese1676

Romagnese1813

Romagnol1820

Friulian1880

Apulian1932

1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 15^v Therefore was it well sayde of that Thoscan Poet [sc. Petrarch].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Italian The Tuscan is usually preferred to the other Dialects.

1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 171 All the Tuscan towns yield in interest to the classic city [Florence] which became their chief.

1841 R. W. Emerson Art in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 361 The pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters.

1886 W. Pater Appreciations (1890) 158 The delicate..sculpture of the early Tuscan school.

c. Architecture. Name of the simplest and rudest of the five classical orders of architecture; allied to the Doric (of which it is by many considered a simpler form), but devoid of all ornament; belonging to this order, as a Tuscan pillar.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders

composite1563

Italic1563

Tuscan1563

Ionic?1566

compositive1601

Tuscanic1601

Doric1614

Ionical1624

Italian1624

Roman1624

compoundeda1639

compound ordera1639

Corinthiac1638

Corinthian1656

rustic1663

composed1728

1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Civ I haue more at large spoken of this matter in the ending of the Tuscan piller.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 228 The Tuscan is a plain, massie, rurall Pillar, resembling some sturdy well-limb'd Labourer, homely clad.

1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 230 The Tuscan is of all the rudest Pillar, and his Principall Character Simplicity.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Of all the Orders, the Tuscan is the most easily executed; as having neither Triglyphs nor Dentils, nor Modillions to confine its Intercolumns.

1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. i. v. 446 The Tuscan was more robust and unadorned than any of these orders [Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian].

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. vii. 359 Another order, called Tuscan (which is no order at all, but a spoiled Doric).

d. Applied to a method of plaiting the fine wheaten straw grown in Tuscany for hats, bonnets, etc.; also to the golden yellow colour of this (see sense B. d below). Cf. Leghorn n. 4a. Also Tuscan grass, Tuscan hat.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow

gildenOE

goldena1382

goldya1398

dory1398

goldc1400

goldisha1425

sunlyc1425

goldlya1450

aureatec1450

gildedc1450

giltenc1450

scorn-golda1586

Pactolian1586

aureal1587

gold colour1648

gold-coloured1674

spun gold1728

aurulent1731

aurelian1791

deaurated1818

Tuscan1830

corn-coloured1854

old gold1877

buttercup yellow1880

aureoline1881

sun gold1887

Tuscan-coloured1905

guinea-gold1938

spun-golden1978

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [adjective] > other methods of

retiary1658

Tuscan1830

looping1854

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > types of

stubble1382

rye straw?1523

kex1550

helm1669

broom-straw1785

Leghorn1817

Tuscan grass1830

buntal1910

baku1927

sisal1928

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > straw > types of

Dunstable1805

Leghorn1810

skimmer1830

Tuscan hat1830

boating hat1840

mushroom1843

Milan hat1855

toering1855

bergère hat1873

Zulu hat1880

boater1882

boat hat1889

straw yard1900

donkey's breakfast1901

brimmer1902

straw boater1905

balibuntal1913

1830 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) iv. 38 Chip and Tuscan Hats.

1833 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) iv. 40 A new bonnet, composed of Tuscan Grass and prepared whalebone.

1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 629 The Tuscan plait..largely imported, and made up into bonnets in this country.

1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 222/2 Men..employed in drabbets and Tuscan plait at Haverhill [Suffolk].

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 504 Tuscan straw work, finely plaited straw of wheat, having a delicate and slender stalk, and golden hue; growing in Tuscany, and manufactured into circular ‘flats’, for hat and bonnet.

B. n.

a. = Etruscan n.

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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Italy > [noun]

Sabinea1387

Tuscana1387

Volscea1387

Samnite1390

Venetian1432

Volscian1513

Marrucian1578

Marsi1578

Marsian1578

Vestinian1578

Tarentine1579

Marrucine1600

Paelignian1600

Sabellian1601

Tyrrhenian1660

Lucanian1709

Tyrrhene1736

Oscan1740

Marrucinian1863

Oscian1875

Ausonian1882

Osco-Umbrian1894

Oscan-Umbrian1960

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 435 Eneas afterward was kyng of eiþer kyngdom of Latyns and of Tuscans.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 159 He ouercame þe Vulces..and made pees wiþ Tuscans.

a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iv. l. 150 He knyt hym to þe Tuskanys, And warrayide wiþe þaim þe Romanys.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (S.T.S.) i. xx. 117 King tarquyne.. renewit þe bond of confederacion with tuskanis.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. 340 The Romanes having slaine many thousands of the Tuscanes, gained thirtie eight ensignes of the field.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) I. 158/2 The Gauls expelled the Tuscans.

1843 T. B. Macaulay Horatius xliii He eyed the flinching Tuscans, And scorn was in his eye.

b. A native or inhabitant of medieval or modern Tuscany.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > parts of

Lombard1377

Etrurian1546

Etruscan1563

Ligurian1601

Umbrian1601

Apulian1607

Calabrian1615

Tuscana1640

Piedmontese1647

Romagnese1762

Romagnol1768

Romagnan1832

Romagnola1845

Emilian1893

transpadane1896

Friulian1959

a1640 P. Massinger Guardian ii. v. 20 in 3 New Playes (1655) The lusty Girle of France, the sober German,..The Roman Libertine, and spriteful Tuscan.

1857 J. F. Maguire Rome xxi. 245 Tuscans only, or their descendants to the third generation, are received into the society.

1901 M. Carmichael In Tuscany i. 9 Certainly the Tuscan has some real love of the Englishman.

c. The language of Tuscany, regarded as the classical form of Italian.

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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Italian > varieties of

courtesan1549

Roman1561

Tuscan1568

Lombard1598

Neapolitan1598

Venetian1598

Lucchese1642

Milanese1642

Piedmontese1642

Romanesco1792

Sicilian1818

Ligurian1835

Bolognese1839

Corsican1855

Florentine1855

Veronese1872

Emilian1878

Romanaccio1963

Torinese1975

1568 (title) The Fearfull Fansies of the Florentine Couper: Written in Toscane, by Iohn Baptista Gelli..and..translated into English by W. B[arker].

1668 J. Gailhard Present State Princes Italy 144 The Right Italian language, or Toscan, as they usually call it, is very Sententious.

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxx. 16 He knew..French and Tuscan.

1906 Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 583 Their language is the purest Tuscan of the golden age of the Italian Vernacular.

d. The golden-yellow colour of Tuscan straw.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > golden yellow

goldOE

gold colour1547

goldness1657

goldishness1671

aventurine1791

goldenness1829

gilding1851

orange-gold1859

buttercup yellow1863

old gold1871

red-gold1884

Tuscan1887

honey1981

1887 Daily News 11 Jan. 3/1 Tiring of that novelty the public called for other colours, and tuscan, apricot, coffee, and beige followed in quick succession.

1912 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 3/3 Draped Toque..Colors Black, Navy or Tuscan, with corded silk in colors to harmonize.

1923 Daily Mail 16 Apr. 1 Colours:..Old Gold, Tuscan, Mastic.

Compounds

Tuscan-coloured adj. of the colour of Tuscan straw.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow

gildenOE

goldena1382

goldya1398

dory1398

goldc1400

goldisha1425

sunlyc1425

goldlya1450

aureatec1450

gildedc1450

giltenc1450

scorn-golda1586

Pactolian1586

aureal1587

gold colour1648

gold-coloured1674

spun gold1728

aurulent1731

aurelian1791

deaurated1818

Tuscan1830

corn-coloured1854

old gold1877

buttercup yellow1880

aureoline1881

sun gold1887

Tuscan-coloured1905

guinea-gold1938

spun-golden1978

1905 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 8/2 Such a hat would be very dainty in a..Tuscan-coloured straw with Saxe blue ribbon velvet.

Tuscan lamb n. a variety of processed lambskin, used mainly to make headwear.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of lamb

footfell1347

lambskin?a1366

budge1395

lentrinware1435

buggishank1463

budge-skin1466

lamba1474

budge-fura1529

astrakhan1766

krimmer1834

Persian lamb1853

broadtail1892

karakul1894

breitschwanz1923

beaver lamb1939

shorn lamb1945

Lucca lamb1956

Tuscan lamb1956

kalgan1960

Swakara1966

1956 J. G. Links Bk. Fur ii. 52 Persian lamb..and all the odd varieties of processed lamb (beaver, Tuscan,..Lucca and..others).

1962 J. G. Links How to look at Furs (rev. ed.) 108 The merino can be sheared less or more than it is in the case of beaver lamb. If it is sheared less, the result is often called by such names as Lucca lamb or Tuscan lamb (Italian lambs are often treated in this way).

1970 Guardian 24 Nov. 9/4 A Tuscan Lamb Hat (in black or white) complete with ear muffs.

Tuscan-like adj. and adv.

ΚΠ

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 65 If it be lawfull for me to write Tuscane like, why..not..likewise..to speake Tuscane like?

† Tuscan-top n. Obsolete applied sarcastically to a style of hair-dressing.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair

roll1538

puff1601

Tuscan-top1602

cock-up1692

turban1727

bird's nest1730

rooter1840

coxcomb1843

roach1872

flop1900

Buster Brown1904

peppercorn1910

upsweep1946

bouffant1955

beehive1960

Prince Valiant1964

blow-dry1966

Mary Stuart1966

bouffy1970

Mohawk haircut1979

Mohican1983

fauxhawk2000

1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3 These high Gable ends, these Tuscan tops .

Derivatives

† Tuˈscanic adj. [ < Latin Tuscānicus] Obsolete = sense A. c.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders

composite1563

Italic1563

Tuscan1563

Ionic?1566

compositive1601

Tuscanic1601

Doric1614

Ionical1624

Italian1624

Roman1624

compoundeda1639

compound ordera1639

Corinthiac1638

Corinthian1656

rustic1663

composed1728

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. xxiii. 595 Such pillars as beare in compasse.., as much as..the sixt part of the height, be called Dorique:.. such as have a seventh part, be Tuscanique.

ˈTuscanish adj. = sense A. b.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > parts of

Tuscanish1580

Tuscan1588

Umbrian1601

Emilian1660

Piedmontese1676

Romagnese1813

Romagnol1820

Friulian1880

Apulian1932

1580 G. Harvey Let. to Spenser in Wks. (1884) I. 84 Not a looke but [is] Tuscanish alwayes.

ˈTuscanism n. Tuscan style or character; a Tuscan idiom or phrase.

ΚΠ

1580 G. Harvey Let. to Spenser in Wks. (1884) I. 84 Since Galateo came in, and Tuscanisme gan vsurpe.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation Ded. sig. ***v The glory of our English Eloquence, and our vulgar Tuscanisme (if I may so terme it).

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. K^v He would needs crosse the seas to fetch home two penniworth of Tuscanisme.

1906 Athenæum 2 June 664/3 The Tuscanism ‘si domanda’.

ˈTuscanize v. (a) intransitive to become Tuscan; (b) transitive to make Tuscan; (c) intransitive to speak in the Italian of Florence or Tuscany.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [verb (intransitive)] > parts of

Tuscanizea1618

the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (intransitive)] > use Tuscan

Tuscanize1768

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [verb (transitive)] > parts of

Tuscanize1905

a1618 J. Sylvester Epist. J. vii. 13 in Wks. (1880) II When every thing now Tuskanizeth so, That nothing is the same it is in show.

1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy I. 161 His language is the most nauseous medley..taken from several of the Italian dialects, and tuscanized in a most ridiculous manner.

1905 Athenæum 8 Apr. 431/1 The Genoese who blames his Tuscanizing friend for saying ‘arimmetica’ in place of aritemetica.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	tuscan
释义	Tuscanadj.n. /ˈtʌskən/ Forms: Also 1500s Tuskan(e, Thuscane, 1500s–1600s Tuscane, 1500s–1700s Thuscan; 1500s Toscane, Thoscan, Thoskan, 1600s Toscan. Etymology: = French Tuscan, -ane, Italian Toscano, < late Latin Tuscānus of or belonging to the Tuscī or Thuscī, a people of ancient Italy (called also Etruscī Etruscans), plural of Tuscus adjective and noun, an ethnic name. A. adj. a. In reference to ancient times = Etruscan adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Italy > [adjective] Tuscan1513 Vestinian1578 Oscian1598 Sabine1600 Marrucine1601 Volscian1601 Ausonian1607 Marsian1614 Marrucian1661 Oscan1661 Paelignian1661 Samnite1753 Samnitic1753 Sabellian1841 Marrucinian1863 Venetic1880 Sabinian1902 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xii. 3 The Tuscane Dukis and horsmen. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Tuskan tongue or language. 1587 W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 100 Also Horatius that did alone defend the bridge aganis the Thoskan force. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. 340 He was taught the Tuscane learning and knowledge. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) i. 72 Great Vesta, Romulus, and Patriot Gods, Who guard Imperial Rome, and Tuscan Floods. 1706 Smith in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 14 Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 312 The old Thuscan language. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Horatius xxxv The Tuscan army, Right glorious to behold. b. Of or pertaining to Tuscany, formerly a grand duchy, having Florence as its capital; now a region of the Italian Republic, nearly corresponding to the ancient Etruria. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > parts of Tuscanish1580 Tuscan1588 Umbrian1601 Emilian1660 Piedmontese1676 Romagnese1813 Romagnol1820 Friulian1880 Apulian1932 1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 15^v Therefore was it well sayde of that Thoscan Poet [sc. Petrarch]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Italian The Tuscan is usually preferred to the other Dialects. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 171 All the Tuscan towns yield in interest to the classic city [Florence] which became their chief. 1841 R. W. Emerson Art in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 361 The pictures of the Tuscan and Venetian masters. 1886 W. Pater Appreciations (1890) 158 The delicate..sculpture of the early Tuscan school. c. Architecture. Name of the simplest and rudest of the five classical orders of architecture; allied to the Doric (of which it is by many considered a simpler form), but devoid of all ornament; belonging to this order, as a Tuscan pillar. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders composite1563 Italic1563 Tuscan1563 Ionic?1566 compositive1601 Tuscanic1601 Doric1614 Ionical1624 Italian1624 Roman1624 compoundeda1639 compound ordera1639 Corinthiac1638 Corinthian1656 rustic1663 composed1728 1563 J. Shute First Groundes Archit. sig. Civ I haue more at large spoken of this matter in the ending of the Tuscan piller. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 228 The Tuscan is a plain, massie, rurall Pillar, resembling some sturdy well-limb'd Labourer, homely clad. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 230 The Tuscan is of all the rudest Pillar, and his Principall Character Simplicity. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Of all the Orders, the Tuscan is the most easily executed; as having neither Triglyphs nor Dentils, nor Modillions to confine its Intercolumns. 1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. i. v. 446 The Tuscan was more robust and unadorned than any of these orders [Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian]. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. vii. 359 Another order, called Tuscan (which is no order at all, but a spoiled Doric). d. Applied to a method of plaiting the fine wheaten straw grown in Tuscany for hats, bonnets, etc.; also to the golden yellow colour of this (see sense B. d below). Cf. Leghorn n. 4a. Also Tuscan grass, Tuscan hat. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow gildenOE goldena1382 goldya1398 dory1398 goldc1400 goldisha1425 sunlyc1425 goldlya1450 aureatec1450 gildedc1450 giltenc1450 scorn-golda1586 Pactolian1586 aureal1587 gold colour1648 gold-coloured1674 spun gold1728 aurulent1731 aurelian1791 deaurated1818 Tuscan1830 corn-coloured1854 old gold1877 buttercup yellow1880 aureoline1881 sun gold1887 Tuscan-coloured1905 guinea-gold1938 spun-golden1978 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [adjective] > other methods of retiary1658 Tuscan1830 looping1854 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > types of stubble1382 rye straw?1523 kex1550 helm1669 broom-straw1785 Leghorn1817 Tuscan grass1830 buntal1910 baku1927 sisal1928 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > straw > types of Dunstable1805 Leghorn1810 skimmer1830 Tuscan hat1830 boating hat1840 mushroom1843 Milan hat1855 toering1855 bergère hat1873 Zulu hat1880 boater1882 boat hat1889 straw yard1900 donkey's breakfast1901 brimmer1902 straw boater1905 balibuntal1913 1830 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) iv. 38 Chip and Tuscan Hats. 1833 in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) iv. 40 A new bonnet, composed of Tuscan Grass and prepared whalebone. 1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 629 The Tuscan plait..largely imported, and made up into bonnets in this country. 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 222/2 Men..employed in drabbets and Tuscan plait at Haverhill [Suffolk]. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 504 Tuscan straw work, finely plaited straw of wheat, having a delicate and slender stalk, and golden hue; growing in Tuscany, and manufactured into circular ‘flats’, for hat and bonnet. B. n. a. = Etruscan n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Italy > [noun] Sabinea1387 Tuscana1387 Volscea1387 Samnite1390 Venetian1432 Volscian1513 Marrucian1578 Marsi1578 Marsian1578 Vestinian1578 Tarentine1579 Marrucine1600 Paelignian1600 Sabellian1601 Tyrrhenian1660 Lucanian1709 Tyrrhene1736 Oscan1740 Marrucinian1863 Oscian1875 Ausonian1882 Osco-Umbrian1894 Oscan-Umbrian1960 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 435 Eneas afterward was kyng of eiþer kyngdom of Latyns and of Tuscans. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 159 He ouercame þe Vulces..and made pees wiþ Tuscans. a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iv. l. 150 He knyt hym to þe Tuskanys, And warrayide wiþe þaim þe Romanys. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (S.T.S.) i. xx. 117 King tarquyne.. renewit þe bond of confederacion with tuskanis. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. 340 The Romanes having slaine many thousands of the Tuscanes, gained thirtie eight ensignes of the field. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) I. 158/2 The Gauls expelled the Tuscans. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Horatius xliii He eyed the flinching Tuscans, And scorn was in his eye. b. A native or inhabitant of medieval or modern Tuscany. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Italy > parts of Lombard1377 Etrurian1546 Etruscan1563 Ligurian1601 Umbrian1601 Apulian1607 Calabrian1615 Tuscana1640 Piedmontese1647 Romagnese1762 Romagnol1768 Romagnan1832 Romagnola1845 Emilian1893 transpadane1896 Friulian1959 a1640 P. Massinger Guardian ii. v. 20 in 3 New Playes (1655) The lusty Girle of France, the sober German,..The Roman Libertine, and spriteful Tuscan. 1857 J. F. Maguire Rome xxi. 245 Tuscans only, or their descendants to the third generation, are received into the society. 1901 M. Carmichael In Tuscany i. 9 Certainly the Tuscan has some real love of the Englishman. c. The language of Tuscany, regarded as the classical form of Italian. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Italian > varieties of courtesan1549 Roman1561 Tuscan1568 Lombard1598 Neapolitan1598 Venetian1598 Lucchese1642 Milanese1642 Piedmontese1642 Romanesco1792 Sicilian1818 Ligurian1835 Bolognese1839 Corsican1855 Florentine1855 Veronese1872 Emilian1878 Romanaccio1963 Torinese1975 1568 (title) The Fearfull Fansies of the Florentine Couper: Written in Toscane, by Iohn Baptista Gelli..and..translated into English by W. B[arker]. 1668 J. Gailhard Present State Princes Italy 144 The Right Italian language, or Toscan, as they usually call it, is very Sententious. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxx. 16 He knew..French and Tuscan. 1906 Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 583 Their language is the purest Tuscan of the golden age of the Italian Vernacular. d. The golden-yellow colour of Tuscan straw. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > golden yellow goldOE gold colour1547 goldness1657 goldishness1671 aventurine1791 goldenness1829 gilding1851 orange-gold1859 buttercup yellow1863 old gold1871 red-gold1884 Tuscan1887 honey1981 1887 Daily News 11 Jan. 3/1 Tiring of that novelty the public called for other colours, and tuscan, apricot, coffee, and beige followed in quick succession. 1912 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Spring–Summer 3/3 Draped Toque..Colors Black, Navy or Tuscan, with corded silk in colors to harmonize. 1923 Daily Mail 16 Apr. 1 Colours:..Old Gold, Tuscan, Mastic. Compounds Tuscan-coloured adj. of the colour of Tuscan straw. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > golden yellow gildenOE goldena1382 goldya1398 dory1398 goldc1400 goldisha1425 sunlyc1425 goldlya1450 aureatec1450 gildedc1450 giltenc1450 scorn-golda1586 Pactolian1586 aureal1587 gold colour1648 gold-coloured1674 spun gold1728 aurulent1731 aurelian1791 deaurated1818 Tuscan1830 corn-coloured1854 old gold1877 buttercup yellow1880 aureoline1881 sun gold1887 Tuscan-coloured1905 guinea-gold1938 spun-golden1978 1905 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 8/2 Such a hat would be very dainty in a..Tuscan-coloured straw with Saxe blue ribbon velvet. Tuscan lamb n. a variety of processed lambskin, used mainly to make headwear. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of lamb footfell1347 lambskin?a1366 budge1395 lentrinware1435 buggishank1463 budge-skin1466 lamba1474 budge-fura1529 astrakhan1766 krimmer1834 Persian lamb1853 broadtail1892 karakul1894 breitschwanz1923 beaver lamb1939 shorn lamb1945 Lucca lamb1956 Tuscan lamb1956 kalgan1960 Swakara1966 1956 J. G. Links Bk. Fur ii. 52 Persian lamb..and all the odd varieties of processed lamb (beaver, Tuscan,..Lucca and..others). 1962 J. G. Links How to look at Furs (rev. ed.) 108 The merino can be sheared less or more than it is in the case of beaver lamb. If it is sheared less, the result is often called by such names as Lucca lamb or Tuscan lamb (Italian lambs are often treated in this way). 1970 Guardian 24 Nov. 9/4 A Tuscan Lamb Hat (in black or white) complete with ear muffs. Tuscan-like adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) ii. 65 If it be lawfull for me to write Tuscane like, why..not..likewise..to speake Tuscane like? † Tuscan-top n. Obsolete applied sarcastically to a style of hair-dressing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > other specific styles of hair roll1538 puff1601 Tuscan-top1602 cock-up1692 turban1727 bird's nest1730 rooter1840 coxcomb1843 roach1872 flop1900 Buster Brown1904 peppercorn1910 upsweep1946 bouffant1955 beehive1960 Prince Valiant1964 blow-dry1966 Mary Stuart1966 bouffy1970 Mohawk haircut1979 Mohican1983 fauxhawk2000 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. i. sig. D3 These high Gable ends, these Tuscan tops . View more context for this quotation Derivatives † Tuˈscanic adj. [ < Latin Tuscānicus] Obsolete = sense A. c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > column > [adjective] > classical orders composite1563 Italic1563 Tuscan1563 Ionic?1566 compositive1601 Tuscanic1601 Doric1614 Ionical1624 Italian1624 Roman1624 compoundeda1639 compound ordera1639 Corinthiac1638 Corinthian1656 rustic1663 composed1728 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxvi. xxiii. 595 Such pillars as beare in compasse.., as much as..the sixt part of the height, be called Dorique:.. such as have a seventh part, be Tuscanique. ˈTuscanish adj. = sense A. b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [adjective] > parts of Tuscanish1580 Tuscan1588 Umbrian1601 Emilian1660 Piedmontese1676 Romagnese1813 Romagnol1820 Friulian1880 Apulian1932 1580 G. Harvey Let. to Spenser in Wks. (1884) I. 84 Not a looke but [is] Tuscanish alwayes. ˈTuscanism n. Tuscan style or character; a Tuscan idiom or phrase. ΚΠ 1580 G. Harvey Let. to Spenser in Wks. (1884) I. 84 Since Galateo came in, and Tuscanisme gan vsurpe. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation Ded. sig. **v The glory of our English Eloquence, and our vulgar Tuscanisme (if I may so terme it). 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden* sig. K^v He would needs crosse the seas to fetch home two penniworth of Tuscanisme. 1906 Athenæum 2 June 664/3 The Tuscanism ‘si domanda’. ˈTuscanize v. (a) intransitive to become Tuscan; (b) transitive to make Tuscan; (c) intransitive to speak in the Italian of Florence or Tuscany. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [verb (intransitive)] > parts of Tuscanizea1618 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [verb (intransitive)] > use Tuscan Tuscanize1768 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Italians > [verb (transitive)] > parts of Tuscanize1905 a1618 J. Sylvester Epist. J. vii. 13 in Wks. (1880) II When every thing now Tuskanizeth so, That nothing is the same it is in show. 1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy I. 161 His language is the most nauseous medley..taken from several of the Italian dialects, and tuscanized in a most ridiculous manner. 1905 Athenæum 8 Apr. 431/1 The Genoese who blames his Tuscanizing friend for saying ‘arimmetica’ in place of aritemetica. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.a1387
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