Monza

[ mon-zuh; Italian mawn-tsah ]

/ ˈmɒn zə; Italian ˈmɔn tsɑ /

noun

a city in N Italy, NNE of Milan.

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Example sentences from the Web for monza

I would see Dmitri most often, when he visited his mother from Monza, in the corridor of the Montreux Palace.
Remembering Dmitri Nabokov, the Novelist’s Son and Literary Executor|Brian Boyd|May 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Comacines also used frescoes in Theodolinda's palace at Monza in the fifth and sixth centuries.
The Cathedral Builders|Leader Scott
He started to join Garibaldi, who was in command of the volunteers at Bergamo, and met a detachment of them at Monza.
The Life of Mazzini|Bolton King
The iron crown used to be kept there (they told us the Kings and Emperors came there to be crowned) but it is now at Monza.
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life|Mary Alsop King Waddington

To-day one reaches Monza by the help of a steam-tram that blunders heavily enough over the wide flat Lombardy plain.
Bernardino Luini|James Mason
The Emperor, on the one hand, had no wish to make war for the sake of being crowned at Monza.
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch|Petrarch

British Dictionary definitions for monza

Monza

/ (Italian ˈmontsa) /

noun

a city in N Italy, northeast of Milan: the ancient capital of Lombardy; scene of the assassination of King Umberto I in 1900; motor-racing circuit. Pop: 120 204 (2001)

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