Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gold coin of Leghorn of the value of 4 shillings.
- noun A gold coin of the Medici family, dukes of Florence or Etruria.
- noun A Tuscan money of account. The pezza della rosa or livornina is worth lire.
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Examples
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In silver, there is the scudo of six livres, the mezzo scudo of three; and the quarto, or pezza di trenta soldi: but all these are very scarce.
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I don't and I know people like Recess Monkey (e.g. pezza) and Iain Dale usually don't.
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I weint to a godfaver’s pezza place an dder was a cocroch on da table were dey was servin da pizzas.
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Naples), of whom these words are spoken: _Dionco e Fiametta gran pezza cantarono insieme d'Arcita, e di Palamone_: [32] by which it appears that this story was written before the time of Boccace; but, the name of its author being wholly lost, Chaucer is now become an original; and I question not but the poem has receiv'd many beauties by passing thro 'his noble hands.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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