Noun: ridotto
| Singular | ridotto |
| Plural | ridottos; ridottoes; ridotti |
Sample Sentences
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May 26, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann
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There are to be ridottos at guinea tickets.
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Night came, with that increase of gaiety which has always been night's peculiar privilege—perhaps on the principle of contrast. Monday, it was the ridotto; Tuesday, the opera; Wednesday, Ranelagh; Thursday, the play; Friday, a ball; Saturday, a rout, or else a little of all these blended together. [1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 172:]
Nouns inflected like ridotto
portico,
stiletto,
manifesto,
lazaretto,
capitano,
bravo,
cameo,
scudo,
intonaco,
duello,
ghetto,
fagotto,
casino,
trillo,
ridotto,
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian ridotto (“foyer”). Doublet of redoubt. See: Italian Nouns '
ridotto'.