Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of prehistoric stone structure found in southern Italy.

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Examples

  • A trullo is a sort of stone-built, pointy-roofed, Italian hobbit home, and there's one for sale for just under £80,000 at Ceglie Messapica, 25 miles northwest of Brindisi, on the southern heel of Italy.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Throughout the course of the film, we see Enrico embark on an array of innovative projects: constructing the tallest printed sculpture in existence, working with Foster + Partners and the European Space Agency on a programme to colonise the moon, solidifying a sand dune in the desert, and printing the closest thing to an actual house: a small Italian dwelling known as a trullo.

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2012

  • A trullo is a traditional conical-roofed building found in Puglia, Italy.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • And we have all manner of weird and wonderful projects in mind, some of which we might do this year, some of which might have to wait until we have more time or money: digging a pond, planting an orchard, getting a well-equipped workshop up and running, building a straw-bale chapel, creating a trullo (one of those conical, stone buildings from the spur of the Italian boot), building a woodland sauna.

    Tobias Jones: a retreat of one's own Tobias Jones 2010

  • Ms. Bruno is handling the construction management of a five-bedroom, three-bathroom trullo, with an underfloor heating system powered by solar energy for a London resident.

    Trulli Yours: Historic Stone Huts 2008

  • Ms. Bruno, who is from Turin and now lives in a restored trullo powered by solar panels, heads a small firm called Trullishire (after Tuscany's Chiantishire) that tries to help foreigners find qualified local craftsmen and offers assistance in navigating the thicket of red tape that comes with restoring a trullo.

    Trulli Yours: Historic Stone Huts 2008

  • Three months later, they moved to the small town of Martina Franca and lived out of their camper while they gave the trullo a thorough cleaning and installed a bathroom.

    Trulli Yours: Historic Stone Huts 2008

  • "For us it's wonderful," says Mr. Snegoff, who bought a one-cone trullo as well as another small structure on six acres for €25,000.

    Trulli Yours: Historic Stone Huts 2008

  • "They came here to invest, and we appreciate it," says Vito Cisternino, owner of construction company Sinergie, who is working on a handful of trullo-restoration projects for foreign clients.

    Trulli Yours: Historic Stone Huts 2008

  • The owner paid €90,000 for the trullo, but is spending €300,000 on the restoration and expansion, says Ms. Bruno.

    Trulli Yours: Historic Stone Huts 2008

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