piazza
noun
an open square or public place in a city or town, especially in Italy.
piazze
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pluralof piazza.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Young volunteers rushed about with paintbrushes, paste pots and bills, to plaster Italy's piazze and palazzi, walls and ruins with the confusingly mixed-up slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties.
From Time Magazine Archive
Troops were confined to barracks and kept in readiness for any emergency; strong posses of police guarded all strategic points; cavalry bivouacked in many piazze of many towns.
From Time Magazine Archive
The life in the piazze and on the streets, the crowds in the shops, the pageants, the lights, the stir, the color, all mightily took the eye of the young Dane.
From A Midnight Fantasy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In the first days of spring, from one end of the island to the other, the villagers assemble, and light great fires in the piazze and at the cross-roads.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
Sacchetti describes the borghi,-180- contrade, and piazze of Florence; and his speech is seasoned with rare Tuscan salt of wit.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
