Venetianin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
Venetian as in: Venetian canals
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She has a collection of Venetian glass.
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The Venetians joined with France against the Duke of Milan, (source)Venetians = people of Venice
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Maybe Venetians did their gardening inside, since they were surrounded by water instead of soil?† (source)
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Instead he had a suite, accented in wood tones, with push-button venetians and air conditioning that really worked.† (source)
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What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinoues was to late Greek sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me.† (source)
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Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the shade alike—taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire.† (source)
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She walked past the venetian blinds and the blackout shades to the back of the store.† (source)
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In the Venetians' arsenal as boils Through wintry months tenacious pitch, to smear Their unsound vessels; for th' inclement time Sea-faring men restrains, and in that while His bark one builds anew, another stops The ribs of his, that hath made many a voyage; One hammers at the prow, one at the poop; This shapeth oars, that other cables twirls, The mizen one repairs and main-sail rent So not by force of fire but art divine Boil'd here a glutinous thick mass, that round Lim'd all the shore beneath.† (source)
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Mother is wearing a traditional dress of beaded silk and venetian lace, with a neckline that sits above her collarbone.† (source)
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What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me.† (source)
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Decorated in the style of a Venetian palazzo, suite 208 was one of the finest accommodations on the floor and looked no worse for wear now that the tireless typers of directives had finally moved to the Kremlin.† (source)
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As in the Arsenal of the Venetians Boils in the winter the tenacious pitch To smear their unsound vessels o'er again, For sail they cannot; and instead thereof One makes his vessel new, and one recaulks The ribs of that which many a voyage has made; One hammers at the prow, one at the stern, This one makes oars, and that one cordage twists, Another mends the mainsail and the mizzen; Thus, not by fire, but by the art divine, Was boiling down below there a dense pitch Which upon every side the bank belimed.† (source)
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A chilly breeze rattled in the venetian blinds, through the window my mother had left partly open that morning.† (source)
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Those about whom there was the most anxiety were the Pope and the Venetians.† (source)
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Whenever he dropped her off and picked her up at her bridge parties, the other ladies would peer out at them through the venetian blinds.† (source)
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It so evidently heightened his gratification that she often accompanied him afterwards, and the greatest delight of which the old man had shown himself susceptible since his ruin, arose out of these excursions, when he would carry a chair about for her from picture to picture, and stand behind it, in spite of all her remonstrances, silently presenting her to the noble Venetians.† (source)
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common meaning
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I sat in the brightness of the afternoon and watched the hem of light under the venetian blinds. (source)venetian = meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
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The view was still blocked by a venetian blind.† (source)venetian blind = a kind of window blind
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The only thing behind the Venetian blind is a hollow where a window should be.† (source)
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The minute he disappeared, I whipped into the bathroom and, concealed behind the dirty, aluminum-colored Venetian blind, watched Irwin's monkish face appear in the door crack.† (source)Venetian blind = a kind of window blind
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Once I made out the skylight over my head, though, with its little venetian blind, it all came back to me: Cora's.† (source)
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Her back was toward what little light seeped in from the window, on which the Venetian blind was closed, and so I could not make out the expression of her face, just the gleam of the eyes.† (source)
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I half expected the roof to split in two, the little box on wheels to burst open in the manner of a ripe cotton-pod—but it only sank with a click of flattened springs, and suddenly one venetian blind rattled down.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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In the corner of my eye I caught a slight movement at the window, a venetian blind slit open, then closed. (source)
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The ceiling slanted on either side, meeting in a flat strip in the middle, where there was a square skylight, also covered with a venetian blind'a little square one, clearly custom made to fit.† (source)
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Sunlight through the slats of the Venetian blind.† (source)
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