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palazzo

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[puh-laht-soh, pah-laht-tsaw] / pəˈlɑt soʊ, pɑˈlɑt tsɔ /

noun

plural

palazzi
  1. an impressive public building or private residence; palace.


Etymology

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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