titian

plural titians

1. countableuncountableA bright auburn colour, tinted with gold.

comparative more titian · superlative most titian

1. Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold, especially in reference to hair.

   It was not the kind of face he had expected to see at all. It was young, smooth-skinned, heart-shaped, surrounded by an aura of vivid titian hair that coiled luxuriantly.

   1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 80

comparative more Titian · superlative most Titian

1. Of or relating to Titus Tatius, a king of the Sabines according to the Roman foundation myth.

   Upon his return from Africa, he was honoured with the triumphal ornaments, and admitted among the Titian prieſts, and the prieſts of Auguſtus.

   1748, An Universal History from the Earliest Account of Time, volume 14, page 476

2. Of or relating to the Roman emperor Titus (r. 79–81 AD).

   On the Titian arch it is sculptured, but remains now in only a mutilated state; […]

   1861, The People's Dictionary of the Bible, volume 1, page 267

plural Titians

1. A male given name from Latin, equivalent to Italian Tiziano, notably used in reference to
   1. various Christian saints
   2. Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 1576), an Italian Renaissance painter.

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      There are no evidences in these days of Michelangelos and Titians, who at the age of eighty or ninety could turn out stronger work than our people of thirty and forty today! Nowhere else in the world is there any such evidence. But there is a sympathy, a tenderness of understanding in these modern painters which is as typical of this age, as the titanic :power of the Tintorettos and Titians.

      1926 October 11, C. F. B., “Old and New Pictures in Venice”, in The Christian Science Monitor, Atlantic edition, volume XVIII, number 268, Boston, Mass.: Christian Science Publishing Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2