Noun: piazza
| Singular | piazza |
| Plural | piazzas; piazze |
Sample Sentences
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Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before. [2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:]
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Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like piazza
samosa,
pergola,
influenza,
mozzarella,
pastina,
autostrada,
bravura,
buccina,
zingara,
sinopia,
pizzetta,
pizzeria,
signorina,
gondola,
kamenitza,
dupatta,
acciaccatura,
zadruga,
predella,
semicroma, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian piazza. Doublet of piatza, place, and plaza. See: Italian Nouns '
piazza'.