Sienese
/sɪəˈniːz/adjective
Relating to or characteristic of the Italian city of Siena or its inhabitants: Sienese dancers...
- The text is lavishly illustrated, with many colour images attesting to the brilliance of Sienese art.
- Peace appears accordingly in the Sienese frescoes as a seductive Venus-like figure, reclining on a suit of armor.
- The influence of the Sienese school is discernible in his work.
noun (plural same)
A native or inhabitant of the Italian city of Siena: plenty of cash changes hands as the Sienese furtively bet on their horse to win...
- He was born in Borgo Sansepolcro, a small town near Arezzo, where painting was dominated by the Sienese.
- The Corso del Palio, Race for the Palio, is the name of the spectacular horse race which the Sienese hold twice a year in the Virgin's honor.
- The Sienese were accomplished landscape artists.
Rhymes
- (as) dry as a bone
- (as) dry as a Pommy's towel
- (as) dry as dust
- (as) dull as dishwater (or ditchwater)
- -ase
- ASEAN
- (as) easy as falling off a log
- (as) easy as pie
- as easy as winking
- (as) easy (or simple) as ABC
- a second thought
- aseismic
- asepsis
- aseptic
- aseptically
- asequia
- asexual
- asexualise
- asexuality
- asexualization
- asexualize
- asexually
- as far as
- as far as I can see
- as far as one can tell