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Venetian
early 15c., "native or resident of Venice," from Medieval Latin
Venetianus
, from
Venetia
(see
Venice
). Also probably in part from Old French
Venicien
. As a kind of dress cloth, from 1710.
Venetian blinds
so called by 1791.
