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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) Tuscan
of or pertaining to Tuscany, its people, or their speech.

2. Tuscan
of or designating one of the five classical orders of architecture, basically a simplified form of the Roman Doric, with unfluted columns and no decoration other than moldings.

3. (n.) Tuscan
the Italian dialect of Tuscany, esp. Florence and its environs, which provides the grammatical base for standard literary Italian.

4. Tuscan
a native or inhabitant of Tuscany.

Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L Tuscānus Etruscan =Tusc(ī) the Etruscans +-ānus -an¹)

Definition of 'Tuscan'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Tuscan
a resident of Tuscany

2. (adj) Tuscan
a dialect of Italian spoken in Tuscany (especially Florence)

3. (adj) Tuscan
of or relating to or characteristic of Tuscany or its people

Definition of 'Tuscan'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) Tuscan
of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital

2. (noun) Tuscan
a native or inhabitant of Tuscany

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