palazzo
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of palazzo
< Italian: literally, palace
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The palazzo is filled with ornate wall coverings and moldings, rococo furniture and artworks, and marble floors with intricately detailed inlays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
The action unfolds at a crumbling Venetian palazzo that’s rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of girls and boys who perished years ago during an outbreak of the plague.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Workers dripped with sweat as they balanced on metal ladders outside the palazzo.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” rose from the crowd outside the government palazzo where he handed in his resignation to end his third and final term as premier, a leadership tenure spaced out over 17 years.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
But what happens in that palazzo will make her ageless.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Many schools are housed in beautiful old palazzi - they were never designed with modern physical education in mind.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
As we enter, that video projection surrounds us with vast images of canals and churches, palazzi and domestic buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2025
Giorgio Armani once again gave the fashion world a glimpse of idealized life inside Milan’s stately palazzi, populated by women for whom dressing in comfort and style are not a contradiction.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Gone are the cobblestone roads, the antiquities, the worn palazzi dappled like watercolors.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
Whichever way they turned quaint old walls met their eyes, and tumble-down churches, and mouldering towers, and mediaeval palazzi with carved doorways or rich loggias.
From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant
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