a. (sb.) Pl. tedeschi. Also tedesque. [It. tedesco German; ad. med.L. theodisc-us: cf. Goth. þiudisk, OE. þéodisc, OHG. diutisc, MHG. tiutsch, diutsch, Ger. deutsch: see DUTCH.] The Italian word for German; esp. used to express Teutonic influence as shown in some spheres of Italian art.
1814. Byron, Jrnl., 20 Feb., in Moore, Life (1830), I. 501. The Tedeschi dramatists.
1845. Ford, Handbk. Spain, I. 551/2. The Coro Alto was carved in a quaint tedesque style.
1874. T. G. Appleton, in Longfellow’s Life (1891), III. 232. Achille denounced the Tedesco with the traditionary hatred of the Austrian.
1883. C. C. Perkins, Ital. Sculpture, I. iv. 51, note. Minute works in the ‘semi-tedesco’ style, then in fashion.
