sgabello

[ skah-bel-oh; Italian zgah-bel-law ]

noun

, Italian Furniture.

, plural sga·bel·los, Italian sga·bel·li [zgah-, bel, -lee].

1. a side chair of the Renaissance, consisting of a small seat, usually octagonal, often resting on a cubical part and supported either on two carved planks set transversely on edge or on three legs, with a back formed from a carved plank.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sgabello¹

1955–60; < Italian < Latin scabellum footstool, variant of scabillum, diminutive of scamnum stool, bench (< *scabh-nom )