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Definition

relating to Venice or its people

She has a collection of Venetian glass.

The Venetians joined with France against the Duke of Milan,
Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince

Venetians = people of Venice

ROXANE (lifting her head, and looking down the distant alley): Soft golden brown, like a Venetian's hair.
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
The view out of my window, covered with venetian blinds, was old cypress trees draped in gray swaying moss.
Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
In a book, called "the Golden Book," were recorded the names of all the children of Venetian noblemen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
The only thing behind the Venetian blind is a hollow where a window should be.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
Then she saw the Venetian mirror down in the chimney's craw, flat and face-up in the cinders.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
I stood there, in total amazement at the striking of the bell in the Torre dell'Orologio, at the incredible paintings, at the rich Venetian colors.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
He moves to the window shaded by venetian blinds, pulls the cord to open the slats.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
XXV THE VISIT TO LORD POCOCURANTE, A NOBLE VENETIAN.
Voltaire -- Candide
The designer jeans emporium, the Venetian paper knickknack shop, the stocking boutique with its kicking neon leg.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
That day I crossed the Venetian plain.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
As I served the hot chocolate and tidied the chamber, Madam rubbed her face with Venetian Bloom Water beauty wash, said to remove wrinkles.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
I was the other day talking on the sea bank with certain Venetians, and thither comes the bauble, and falls thus about my neck,— OTHELLO.
William Shakespeare -- Othello, the Moor of Venice
When he returned to his office, Henderson adjusted the venetian blinds on his window, though the sun was on the other side of the building.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Though the Venetian blinds were down, light was filtering through the chinks, and the air stiflingly hot already.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
The door was open to the street, no passers-by but Chinese, though at the windows the Venetian blinds slitted the sunlight as if everyone were hiding.
Maxine Hong Kingston -- The Woman Warrior
The venetian blinds were closed.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
The huge Venetian boatman behind him looked dreamily over Vic's shoulder.
Stephen King -- Carrie
Before the cocktails appeared, in old Venetian glass, Martin demanded, "Doctor, what problems are you getting after now in your physiology?"
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith

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