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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. A city of northeast Italy west of Venice. Founded by Ligurians c. first century B.C., it became a free city in A.D. 1164 and passed to Austria in 1797. Vicenza joined the kingdom of Italy in 1866. Population: 114,000.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Province of Veneto, Italy.
  2. n. Capital of the province of Vicenza.

Etymologies

  1. From Italian Vicenza. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “I can not recall the maker as the hazard with importing a bike like this (they are everywhere in Vicenza, Italy) is that in the USA people will stalk your bike and steal it.”

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  • “In Italy this past Saturday, in a place called Vicenza (Vicenza is approximately 60 km west of Venice and 200 km east of Milan), some 100,000 people hit the streets in protest of the planned expansion of a US military base.”

    Winds of Change

  • “They were rather troublous times, and not to be recalled here in all their circumstance; but I think it due to Vicenza, which is now little spoken of, even in Italy, and is scarcely known in America, where her straw-braid is bought for that of Leghorn, to remind the reader that the city was for a long time a republic of very independent and warlike stomach.”

    Italian Journeys

  • “Against a foe such as Vicenza, however, Tuck stayed on the floor.”

    Stars and Stripes

  • “Other locations, such as Vicenza, Italy, and the United Kingdom, will see a four-point drop.”

    Stars and Stripes

  • “This week Robertson is heading to Vicenza, Italy, where QVC airs three days of live jewelry shows starting Friday June 3, 6/5c.”

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  • “When the Academy of Vicenza needed a theatre in 1579, the Italian architect Andrea Palladio designed it on a classical model drawn from Vitruvius.”

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  • “Zamperla, a big amusement outfit based in Vicenza, recently opened Scream Zone, an addition to Luna Park, the 19-ride kiddie park it launched last year.”

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  • “Five years later, Antonio Salviati came to Venice from Vicenza where he practiced law to open a factory dedicated to production of traditional Murano glass.”

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  • “Born in Gary, Indiana, in 1955, Gus joined the Army in 1977, and served in the 1st Ranger Battalion, an elite infantry unit; a rapid-deployment force based in Vicenza, Italy; and the 101st Airborne Division.”

    The Snatchback

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