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Titian, n. and a.|ˈtɪʃ(ɪ)ən|
[The name Titian, for Tiziano Vecellio, Venetian painter, died 1576.]
A. n. A picture by Titian; a person with Titian or bright auburn hair.
B. attrib. or as adj. Painted by or in the style of Titian; also denoting a colour of the hair favoured by Titian in his pictures, described as a ‘bright golden auburn’, and more loosely used as an appreciative word for ‘red’; freq. in Comb., as Titian-haired (occas. with small initial).
As examples showing the distinctive colour are given ‘Ariadne’ and ‘The Magdalene’ in the National Gallery, London, ‘Flora’ in the Uffizi Palace, Florence, etc.
1824Byron Juan xvi. lvi, A special Titian, warranted original. 1841M. E. Lucy Diary 10 Mar. (1983) 66 Lord Byron's favourite, Countess Guiccioli was there; she had..reddish auburn hair..looking very much like a Titian Magdalene. 1892S. Waterloo Man & Woman xiii. 97 A setter, with Titian hair and big eyes, which slept on the clover beside him. 1896J. Ashby-Sterry Tale Thames xix. (1903) 111/1 Three maidens..all with Titian-tinted tresses. 1903H. James Ambassadors iii. vii. 86 Standing with his fellow-visitor before one of the splendid Titians. 1904Dundee Advertiser 27 June 8/1 Twenty years ago hair with a reddish tinge was called ‘carrots’; now ‘Titian-coloured’ locks are reckoned a definite beauty. 1904Benson Challoners v, The girl..had Titian hair in golden glorious profusion. 1923Times 3 May 14/6 (Advt.), Tecla pearls..are equally becoming whether worn by blondes, brunettes or Titians. 1934Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Oct. 732/2 His Titian-haired wife. 1959W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 77 Titian-haired Venetian lads. 1982‘D. Serafin’ Madrid Underground 103 The tall, titian-haired girl.
Hence Titiˈanic a., of or belonging to Titian; Titiaˈnesque a. [see -esque], in the style of Titian.
1842Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 167 You cannot fail but work in hues to dim The *Titianic Flora.
1801Fuseli in Lect. Paint. ii. (1848) 403 The *Titianesque colour of Hans Holbein. 1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 49 He said, ‘Excuse me, sir’, in a very Titianesque manner. 1895Trotter Mrq. Dalhousie iii. 76 A noble handsome Titianesque head. |