Tus|can

Tus|can
Tus|can «TUHS kuhn», adjective, noun.
–adj.
1. of or having to do with Tuscany, a district in central Italy, its people, or their dialect.
2. Architecture. denoting or belonging to the simplest of the five classical orders, developed by the Romans, and similar in its proportions to the Doric, but having plain, round columns and no decoration.
–n.
1. a native or inhabitant of Tuscany.
2. the dialect of Tuscany, regarded as the classical and standard form of Italian.

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