All 4 Uses of
Venetian
in
Moby Dick
- No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1) *
- The roof is about twelve feet high, and runs to a pretty sharp angle, as if there were a regular ridge-pole there; while these ribbed, arched, hairy sides, present us with those wondrous, half vertical, scimetar-shaped slats of whalebone, say three hundred on a side, which depending from the upper part of the head or crown bone, form those Venetian blinds which have elsewhere been cursorily mentioned.†
Chpt 73-75 (definition 1)
- This difference in the species is no doubt imputable in no small degree to the greater quantity of bone in the Right Whale; his Venetian blinds alone sometimes weighing more than a ton; from this incumbrance the Sperm Whale is wholly free.†
Chpt 79-81 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- On the second day, numbers of Right Whales were seen, who, secure from the attack of a Sperm Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly swam through the brit, which, adhering to the fringing fibres of that wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated from the water that escaped at the lip.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (Venetian) relating to Venice or its people
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Venetian blind describes a popular kind of window blind.