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Ravennese en · ADJ

Etymology

Either Ravenna + -ese or an anglicized form of Latin Ravennātēnsis.

Meanings

  1. Ravennate; of Ravenna.
    • Consider Raphael's Donna Velata, the Ravennese mosaic of Justinian and His Court, and Picasso's still-life The Pigeon. 1930, Helen Knight, “Sense-form in pictorial art”, in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society:

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Ravennese en · NOUN

Etymology

Either Ravenna + -ese or an anglicized form of Latin Ravennātēnsis.

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) The natives or inhabitants of Ravenna in Italy.
    • ...the Ravennese had found a fresh field for their activity on the eastern side of the Adriatic. 1903, Reginald Bloomfield, Art. IV., “Byzantium or Ravenna?”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 197, number 394, page 417: