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Bridge of Sighs

noun

  1. a bridge in Venice across which prisoners were formerly led for trial in the ducal palace.


Bridge of Sighs

noun

  1. a covered 16th-century bridge in Venice, between the Doges' Palace and the prisons, through which prisoners were formerly led to trial or execution
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

He proposed on a gondola at Venice’s Bridge of Sighs in September 2014 and they were married the following year.

Tourists chatter as a punt floats down the River Cam, under the Bridge of Sighs, past St John's College.

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It was filmed at locations around the Necropolis, Glasgow Cathedral and the Bridge of Sighs which links the two, in February 2020.

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As we gazed upon the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, he promised more adventures as he proposed.

“Now it is a bridge of sighs. Empty Rome. Empty Venice. Empty Times Square. To see New York slowed down feels strange — but familiar, because I have been feeling it for weeks about Italy. Now we have all lost a loved one because we have all lost our city, our neighborhood, our home which we love.”

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