All 7 Uses of
Venetian
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *
- In the huge gilt Venetian lantern, spoil of some Doge's barge, that hung from the ceiling of the great oak-panelled hall of entrance, lights were still burning from three flickering jets: thin blue petals of flame they seemed, rimmed with white fire.†
Chpt 7
- "My dear Basil, how do I know?" murmured Dorian Gray, sipping some pale-yellow wine from a delicate gold-beaded bubble of Venetian glass, and looking dreadfully bored.†
Chpt 9
- His eye fell on a large, purple satin coverlet heavily embroidered with gold, a splendid piece of late seventeenth-century Venetian work that his grandfather had found in a convent near Bologna.†
Chpt 10
- The King of Malabar had shown to a certain Venetian a rosary of three hundred and four pearls, one for every god that he worshipped.†
Chpt 11
- Pietro Barbi, the Venetian, known as Paul the Second, who sought in his vanity to assume the title of Formosus, and whose tiara, valued at two hundred thousand florins, was bought at the price of a terrible sin;†
Chpt 11
- Mrs. Erlynne, a pushing nobody, with a delightful lisp, and Venetian-red hair;†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(Venetian as in: Venetian canals) relating to Venice or its people
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
Venetian blind describes a popular kind of window blind.