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piazza
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piazza \Pi*az"za\, n.; pl. Piazzas. [It., place, square, market place, L. platea street, courtyard. See Place.] An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas.
--Jer.
Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "public square in an Italian town," from Italian piazza, from Latin platea "courtyard, broad street," from Greek plateia (hodos) "broad (street);" see place (n.). According to OED, mistakenly applied in English 1640s to the colonnade of Covent Garden, designed by Inigo Jones, rather than to the marketplace itself; hence "the verandah of a house" (1724, chiefly American English).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A public square, especially in an Italian city. 2 (context chiefly US dated English) A veranda.
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Usage examples of "piazza".
Soaring over the Duomo, the Baptistry, and the Piazza della Signoria, which rose from the streets like minarets around a heavenly dome .
And so while Aunt Rosa slept, Lucia danced at the Quisisana in Capri, rode in a carrozza with a beplumed and iM-iiaiicu iiuisc puiung n, joinea a group of college boys at the Marina Piccola, went on picnics at Bagni di Tiberio, and took the Funicolare up to Anacapri, where she joined group of French students for drinks at the Piazza Umertol In Venice a handsome gondolier took her to a disco, and a fisherman took her fishing at Chioggia.
Piazza del Popolo persuaded Buckthorn and Silverwood that the most charming lodgings in the area were to be found in the Palazzetto Raguzzi, at the northern end of the Piazza.
After much courteous proposing and chivalrous disposing, it was agreed that Estelle had to be given the benefit of one of the rooms and Spandrel that of the other, while Buckthorn and Silverwood contented themselves with rooms at the Albergo Luna in Via Condotti, just off the piazza.
Joel said, and they ducked into the Caffe Beltrame, overlooking the piazza.
I was sent to get him safely to that café table on the Piazza San Marco?
A sea of sound washed over the darkening Piazza into the lighted arcades, drowning the voices and the café music, breaking high into the cool night sky above.
Piazza Margherita a company of Carabineers was going at quick march towards the station.
I had seen men crimped in the open piazza, out of wine-shops, from the steps of churches.
Twelve Apostles was a visit from a neighbor he had known in the Piazza Santa Croce, Agnolo Doni, his own age, whose father had made a beginning competence in the wool trade and bought a neglected palace near the Albertini palace in the Santa Croce quarter.
I have always had a passion for moonlight and I stood long on the piazza watching the great disk-change from from its horizon copper to gold, then cool to silver as it swung up into the immeasurable tranquil62 DuBose Heyward lity of the southern night.
And a few strolled up to the ruined ingenio, and smoked their cigarettes under its piazza.
He drove down the hill, turned right at Varlungo, went along the shore of the Affrico River, past the ancient Porta alla Croce marking the fourth limit of the city, along the Borgo la Croce, past the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, turned right at Via Larga in front of the Medici palace, through the Piazza San Marco to the garden gate, as proud as though he were carrying home his bride.
Piazza Municipio and walked down the divided boulevard toward the harbor.
Palazzo Muti, Roman residence of the self-styled King James III of England and VIII of Scotland, was a handsomely columned and pedimented gold-stuccoed building at the northern end of the Piazza dei Santi Apostoli, close to the heart of the old city.