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Ravennese

Ravennese

English

Adjective

Ravennese (comparative more Ravennese, superlative most Ravennese)

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

Noun

Ravennese (uncountable)

  1. The natives or inhabitants of Ravenna in Italy.
    • 1903, Reginald Bloomfield, Art. IV. "Byzantium or Ravenna?" in The Quarterly Review, Vol. 197, No. 394, p. 417.
      ...the Ravennese had found a fresh field for their activity on the eastern side of the Adriatic.