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Renaissance Revival — a mid Victorian architectural style adapting the classical forms of 15th and 16th century Italian architecture, especially palace architecture, usually characterized by blocklike massing, with refined classicized decorative detail around… … Useful english dictionary
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Renaissance — The Renaissance † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Renaissance The Renaissance may be considered in a general or a particular sense, as (1) the achievements of what is termed the modern spirit in opposition to the spirit which… … Catholic encyclopedia
renaissance — [ren′ə säns΄, ren′əzäns΄; ren΄ə säns′, ren΄əzäns′; ] chiefly Brit [ ri nā′səns] n. [Fr < renaître, to be born anew < OFr renestre < re + VL * nascere, for L nasci, to be born: see GENUS] 1. a new birth; rebirth; renascence 2. a) [R ] the … English World dictionary
revival — [ rəvival; rivajvɶl ] n. m. • 1835; mot angl. ♦ Anglic. 1 ♦ Assemblée religieuse destinée à raviver la foi. « Dans ces revivals, sortes d assemblées religieuses et prédicantes, [...] les attaques convulsives ne sont pas rares » (A. Daudet). ♢… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Renaissance — great period of revival of classical based art and learning in Europe that began 14c., 1840, from Fr. renaissance des lettres, from O.Fr. renaissance, lit. rebirth, usually in a spiritual sense, from renaître be born again, from V.L. *renascere,… … Etymology dictionary
