a. and sb. Also 7 Hetrurian. [f. ETRURIA + -AN.] A. adj. Of or belonging to Etruria. B. sb. A native of Etruria.
1623. Cockeram, III. Decii, the Sonne [vowed himself] against the Hetrurians.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. i. (1664), 11. Written in Hetrurian letters.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 303. In Vallombrosa, where th Etrurian shades High overarcht imbowr.
1842. Lytton, Zanoni, 23. As old as Greek or Etrurian fable.