piazza

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In the daytime, there is hardly a livelier scene in Rome than the neighborhood of the Fountain of Trevi; for the piazza is then filled with the stalls of vegetable and fruit dealers, chestnut roasters, cigar venders, and other people, whose petty and wandering traffic is transacted in the open air.

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  1. noun A public square in an Italian town.
  2. noun A roofed and arcaded passageway; a colonnade.
  3. noun New England & Southern Atlantic U.S. A veranda.

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  • The piazza is the top of all things. —  New Italian sketches
  • Yet here, upon this miniature piazza--in modern as in ancient Italy the meeting-point of civic life, the forum--we find a cathedral, a palace of the bishop, a palace of the feudal lord, and a palace of the commune, arranged upon a well-considered plan, and executed after one design in a consistent style. —  New Italian sketches
  • Here they mounted the broad piazza, and Ruth turned the knob of the door, which opened. —  The Girl Scouts' Good Turn
  • You will dig a piece of ground to grow maize and plantains for your family; you will read history in your piazza, and see your daughters dance in the shade, while your name will never be mentioned but as that of a traitor. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
  • The front of the piazza was completely overgrown with the creepers which had been brought there only to cover the posts, and hang their blossoms from the eaves. —  The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
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  1. Italian, from Latin platēa, street, from Greek plateia (hodos), broad (way), feminine of platus, broad; see plat- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Italian piazza, a square, market-place, = Spanish plaza = Portuguese praça = French place, from Latin platea, place: see place.
 

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