The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piatti \Pi*at"ti\, n. pl. [It., prop., plates.] (Mus.) Cymbals. [Written also pyatti.]
Wikipedia
Piatti may refer to:
- The Piatti scooter, a motor scooter of the 1950s
- Carlo Alfredo Piatti, 19th Century Italian cellist
- Pablo Piatti, Argentinian football player
- An old but still extant Austro- Venetian noble family, members of which bear the titles Margrave or Count von Piatti. From Milan they migrated to the Venetian Republic, becoming courtiers at the Holy Roman Empire's capital, Vienna. Counts as early as 1022, they obtained the marquisate of Bismantua in 1644 and the Austrian Empire confirmed their comital title in 1841.
- In older music scores, piatti is the Italian term for cymbals
Usage examples of "piatti".
From where I was I could not see Piatti, but I imagined him standing in the dimly-lighted passage listening to Mr.
Of course, when I saw the older Piatti standing in the hall of the Hotel Hungaria at Budapest I realised that I had been followed from the moment that Emily and I ran out of the house at Bread Street.
She is terrified of the Sicilians, and I firmly believe that Piatti can force her to give up the proofs of the crime to him.
One glance round the brilliantly-lighted place assured me that neither Piatti nor Mrs.
The room was brilliantly lighted from within, and exactly opposite, but with his back to me, stood Piatti, whilst squatting on a low stool beside him was Mrs.
Fortunately, my story was corroborated by the fact that the floor valet had seen Piatti hanging about the corridor outside No.
She had then agreed out of sheer cowardice to deliver to him the proofs of his own guilt in the Palermo murder case, and when Lady Molly, hearing the voices, came out of her own room, Piatti knocked her down lest she should intervene.
Fortunately, she had the good sense, or the cowardice, then and there to entrust the coat and watch and chain to Lady Molly, and when Piatti followed her into her room she was able to show him that the proofs were not then in her possession.
Cividale even whilst Piatti still believed that he held that silly Mrs.
But I denounced Piatti then and there, thinking he had attacked my dear lady, and I got him put under lock and key so quickly that he had not the time to communicate with his associates.
I may as well tell you here that neither Piatti nor his son, nor any of that gang, were arrested for the crime.
We have it on the authority both of Piatti and of Signor Pezze, also a pupil of Merighi, that in 1822, while the last-named was passing through the streets of Milan, he perceived a working man carrying, among other things, a violoncello on a truck or barrow.
I piatti dipinti disposti lungo la mensola della sala da pranzo produssero un debole, armonioso tintinnio.
Gli odori di tuia mezza dozzina di piatti, ricchi di spezie ed erbe, riempivano l'aria.
Gli usci erano stretti, i tetti piatti, circondati da ringhiere di metallo e coperti da lastre di ardesia.