palazzo
Americannoun
plural
palazziEtymology
Origin of palazzo
< Italian: literally, palace
Example Sentences
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Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
But he doesn’t bother to mount most of his oil paintings, leaving them stacked against the walls of his 16th century palazzo like dollar records at a flea market.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2025
Soon after, she and her husband, Agostino, a renewable-energy mogul of aristocratic lineage, transformed a family palazzo into a museum space in Guarene.
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
Ms Nkadimeng regrets that she no longer has the pair of white palazzo trousers that Ms Simelane bought her as a gift for her ninth birthday.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023
But what happens in that palazzo will make her ageless.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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