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all'antica

all'antica adjective: in a classical style; based on classical models.

Adjective

all'antica

  1. In a classical style; based on classical models.
    • In adapting Joshua Reynolds's concept of the ‘historicizing portrait’, taking up Van Dyck or Oriental fashions and elevating all'antica garb to fashion, her portraits were considered particularly ‘fashionable’.2020, Bettina Baumgärtel, Angelica Kauffman, Munich: Hirmer, page 12

Origin of all'antica

From Italian all'antica (“in the style of antiquity”).

Questions about all'antica

What does all'antica mean?
All'antica means in a classical style; based on classical models.
What part of speech is all'antica?
All'antica is an adjective.

Words near all'antica in the dictionary

  1. all wool and a yard wide
  2. all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
  3. all y'all
  4. all y'all's
  5. all your base are belong to us
  6. all'antica
  7. all's
  8. all's fair in love and war
  9. all's fish that comes to the net
  10. all's one
  11. all's well that ends well

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