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I·tal·ian·ism  (-tly-nzm)
n.
1. An Italian idiom or custom.
2. A quality characteristic of Italy or its people.
Italianism [ɪˈtæljəˌnɪzəm], Italicism [ɪˈtælɪˌsɪzəm]
n
1. an Italian custom or style
2. Italian quality or life, or the cult of either
Italianism
an Italian loanword in English, as chiaroscuro. Also Italicism.
See also: Language
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Nevertheless, Italian did not become its national language (Delacroix and Carroll 1983), which remained firmly Spanish (with a small number of charming Italianisms thrown in).
If Mexicans and Americans could cross the border freely by Delacroix, Jacques; Nikiforov, Sergey / Independent Review
If Italianisms persist in the English, such as the colloquialism describing Florence as the "navel of Italy" (62), they are few in number, and their meaning is clear to readers familiar with Italian.
Selected Writings: Religion and Politics, 1490-98 by Ettle, Ross Brooke / Renaissance Quarterly
To the techniques characteristic of the different stages of his development as a secular composer he added a few italianisms in melodics, most frequently akin to Verdi - particularly in the Stabat mater, but also in the Requiem and the Te Deum, but no longer when it came to the Mass in D major and not at all in the Biblical Songs, which in musical idiom belong in full to the American period and the broader framework of Dvorak' highly individual lyrical musical language.
The sources of Antonin Dvorak's music by Smolka, Jaroslav / Czech Music
 
 
 
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