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Chioggia

[kee-oh-jee-uh; Italian kyawd-jah]
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noun
  1. a city in NE Italy, on an island at the S end of the Lagoon of Venice.
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  • Chioggia to Ferrara, by the road they would go, is a handsome fifty miles.

    Little Novels of Italy

    Maurice Henry Hewlett

  • Like everything at Chioggia, it is dirty and has fallen from its first estate.

    New Italian sketches

    John Addington Symonds

  • Chioggia reminds one of the Jewish quarter in the east end of London.

    Venice

    Dorothy Menpes

  • North of Comacchio on the shore of a Venetian lagoon is Chioggia.

  • On the 16th of August a general assault was made on Chioggia.