Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A long island in the Venetian lagoon separated from the main part of the city by a wide canal
Etymologies
- Italian giudecca, place reserved for jews (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I used to pay vaporetto tickets daily and then I met someone living in Giudecca who taught me the dance.”
“And the view from La Giudecca is stupifying ... perfect sunlight all-day 90% of the time.”
“The Giudecca is another stronghold of the game, every little bar there having a stamped-down bowling alley at the back of it.”
“The garden on the Giudecca was a long narrow strip on the seaward side, blossoming profusely with flowers.”
“The Giudecca was a place kept apart for the Jews, I believe.”
“I check into the paparazzi-proof Cipriani on the private Giudecca Island for one week--a safe haven for George Clooney, Al Pacino and Gwyneth Paltrow.”
“Francesca Bortolotto Possati Venice Venetian hotelier, vintner and philanthropist Francesca Bortolotto Possati , a third generation owner of the Bauer hotel, has just opened her newest property, the Villa F., a luxuriously restored 16th-century villa on the Giudecca.”
“A small placard on the boat said it had been manufactured at a shipyard on the island of Giudecca where the film festival takes place in 1985.”
“The first month of my retirement I went back to Venice," she recalled of a charming apartment she owns on the waterfront overlooking Giudecca.”
“Over the years I have been back to Harry's Bar many times, once with a lovely ex wife, after which we repaired to our room at the Cipriani Hotel on Giudecca, the island across the lagoon where the Cipriani clan had opened an elegant hotel in 1958.”
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