patinato
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Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
patinato (feminine patinata, masculine plural patinati, feminine plural patinate)
Adjective[edit]
patinato (feminine patinata, masculine plural patinati, feminine plural patinate)
- patinated, covered with a patina (either by the passage of time or artificially to mimic such effect)
- 1915, Corrado Govoni, “Ferrara”, in L'inaugurazione della primavera[1]:
- E campane ossidate / come tegole patinate dalla pioggia […]
- And oxidized bells / like tiles patinated by the rain […]
- glossy, glazed, slick, coated
- carta patinata ― coated paper
- rivista patinata ― glossy magazine
- (figurative, by extension) that only has an external or apparent perfection; superficial, fake
- 2020 August 24, Donatella Campus, “"Beauty is political": così AOC trasforma la bellezza in un appello per le donne ["Beauty is political": this is how AOC transforms beauty into an appeal for women]”, in la Repubblica[2]:
- Si noti che non ha utilizzato lo spazio di Vogue in modo patinato, […] ma ha presentato un video in tutto e per tutto simile a un tutorial come se ne trovano tanti su internet […].
- Note that she did not use Vogue's space in a superficial way, […] but presented a video in all respects similar to a tutorial like one of the many that can be found on the Internet […].
- (figurative, literary) tanned (having a suntan)
- 1955, Corrado Alvaro, Settantacinque racconti, Milan, page 35:
- Non parlo delle sue labbra screpolate per la sua vita all'aria aperta, delle sue mani brusche, della sua pelle patinata dal sole.
- I won't speak of his chapped lips for his open-air lifestyle, of his rough hands, of his skin tanned by the sun.
References[edit]
- patinare1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “patinato”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 12, page 823
