Piozzi
Americannoun
noun
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A 1789 example in some travel writing by Hester Lynch Piozzi gives a sense of trumpery’s non-value: “A heap of trumpery fit to furnish out the shop of a Westminster pawnbroker.”
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2016
Thraliana": "January, 1783.—A fit of jealousy seized me the other day: some viper had stung me up to a notion that my Piozzi was fond of a Miss Chanon.
From Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Piozzi, Hester Lynch
The lady, let us note, is a portrait of Miss Hester Lynch Salusbury, afterwards Mrs. Thrale and Madame Piozzi.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton
In 1784, she married an Italian teacher of music named Piozzi.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
His only daughter was the celebrated Mrs. Thrale, the friend of Dr. Johnson, afterwards married to a Mr. Piozzi.
From History of Halifax City by Akins, Thomas B.
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