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adjective

Florentine adj. Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy.

Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

noun

Florentine n.

A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy.

A kind of silk.

A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. (Obs.) "Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines."

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Etymology of 'Florentine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Florentine" Quotes from Famous Books

... dark world returned To Dante's page, those wearied thoughts of mine; Again I read, again my longing burned.— A voice melodious spake in every line, But from sad pleasure sorrow fresh I learned: Strange was the music of the Florentine. ...

— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall

... on reality. Thus there can be little doubt that the moving picture is steadily building up imagery which is then evoked by the words people read in their newspapers. In the whole experience of the race there has been no aid to visualization comparable to the cinema. If a Florentine wished to visualize the saints, he could go to the frescoes in his church, where he might see a vision of saints standardized for his time by Giotto. If an Athenian wished to visualize the gods he went to the temples. But the number of objects which were ...

— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... pictures were fresh in her memory. She had found in them little save a decorative arrangement marred by faulty drawing; but Oliver Haddo gave them at once a new, esoteric import. Those effects as of a Florentine jewel, the clustered colours, emerald and ruby, the deep blue of sapphires, the atmosphere of scented chambers, the mystic persons who seem ever about secret, religious rites, combined in his cunning phrases to create, as it were, a pattern on her soul of morbid and mysterious intricacy. Those ...

— The Magician • Somerset Maugham

... measure of the waywardness of temper, the impatience of authority, the resolute and daring humour, the passion of worship for what is great in art and of contempt for what is little and bad, which entered so largely into the composition of the Florentine. There is not much to choose between the Berlioz of the Debats, the author of the Grotesques de la Musique and the A Travers Chants, and the Benvenuto who, as Il Lasca writes ...

— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley

... quite a problem. They were supposed to represent the first three steps of a huge flight leading up to a Florentine palace, and had to be half hidden in some way. I asked for some shrubs, flowers and plants, which I arranged along the ...

— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt

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