Tuscan

UK: /ˈtʌskən/ US: (tus′kən)

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Tus•can  (tus′kən), adj. 

1. Language Varieties, Place Names of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Tuscany, its people, or their dialect.
2. Architecture noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders: developed in Rome, it is basically a simplified Roman Doric, with unfluted columns and with no decoration other than moldings. See illus. under order. Cf. composite (def. 3), Corinthian (def. 2), Doric (def. 3), Ionic (def. 1).

n. 

3. Language Varieties the standard literary form of the Italian language.
4. Language Varieties any Italian dialect of Tuscany.
5. Place Names, Language Varieties a native of Tuscany.

• Latin Tuscānus Etruscan, equivalent. to Tusc(ī) the Etruscans + -ānus -an
• Middle English 1350–1400

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Tuscan / ˈtʌskən/ adjective

1. of or relating to Tuscany, its inhabitants, or their dialect of Italian
2. of, denoting, or relating to one of the five classical orders of architecture: characterized by a column with an unfluted shaft and a capital and base with mouldings but no decoration
   See also Ionic, composite4, Doric, Corinthian

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Tuscany
2. any of the dialects of Italian spoken in Tuscany, esp the dialect of Florence: the standard form of Italian