a. and sb. [a. It. Veronese: see VERONA and -ESE.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to, made in or obtained from, Verona in the north of Italy.
1757. trans. Keysler’s Trav., III. 181. Four hundred and fifty Veronese feet.
1776. in Encycl. Brit. (1780), VI. 4124/2. The Vicentine and Veronese lavas and volcanic ashes.
1833. C. Redding, Hist. Mod. Wines (1851), 278. Even a wretched Veronese wine … is called ‘vino santo.’
1885. Encycl. Brit., XIX. 88/1. Veronese earth or terra verde, a form of ochre. Ibid. (1888), XXIV. 171/2. Many good pictures of the Veronese school.
1890. Cent. Dict., s.v. Green, Veronese green, a pigment consisting of hydrated chromium sesquioxid…. Also called viridian.
B. sb. 1. The natives or inhabitants of Verona. Also as sing.
1757. trans. Keysler’s Trav., III. 176. The Veronese might justly erect statues to other illustrious persons.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 243/1. The revolutionists … threatened the other provinces which remained in obedience to the senate, and especially the Veronese.
1873. ‘Ouida,’ Pascarèl, I. 56. The Veronese used to call me L’Uccello.
2. The form of Italian spoken in Verona.
1872. Ruskin, Fors Clav., II. xix. 11. Some talk followed, of cold and heat, and anything else one knew the Italian for, or could understand the Veronese for (Veronese being more like Spanish than Italian).
