Florentine
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- adjective
- /flɔːrənˈtiːn/
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florentino
- For lunch, I ordered a delicious Florentine omelet filled with fresh spinach and cheese.
- Florentine artist
- Florentine merchant
- Florentine church
I managed my Machiavelli reader, which includes my three favorite books of his, The Prince, The Discourses, and the Florentine Histories.
- I managed my Machiavelli reader, which includes my three favorite books of his, The Prince, The Discourses, and the Florentine Histories.
Examples
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Still, he plows his way through the Dijon Market Salad and a Florentine Bean Casserole.
Fiction book (1994) -
And she lived the whole of her adult life at the Florentine epicenter of secular, family-based art patronage.
Academic text (2008) -
A fine example of Florentine bronze.
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This ostrich egg full English breakfast is sold at Florentine Restaurant and Bar in London.
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Did you not paint a holy family for a Florentine banker?
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In a consensus formed around this idea, a Florentine omelet played a major role in Ocws history.
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I brought the plans of a Florentine architect... Leonardo, da Vinci.
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Modern art history regularly locates it at the origins of Florentine Mannerism.
Academic text (2011) -
There is a smell of fennel, coffee, and dogs, and the characteristic dampness of Florentine architecture.
Fiction book (1998) -
More statues and paintings by the cream of Florentine painters and sculptors were made to memorialize other successful mercenary soldiers.
Synonyms
Compounds
A plant from southern Europe with large white flowers, lavender tips, and a fragrant underground stem
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Florentine comes from the city Florence, whose old Latin name Florentia meant 'flowering' from the root flor- ('flower'). So Florentine describes things from that city—its people and art—and a dish 'Florentine' is simply 'in the style of Florence', often served with spinach.