Piozzi

American  

[pee-ot-see, pyawt-tsee] / piˈɒt si, ˈpyɔt tsi /

noun

1. Hester Lynch. Thrale, Hester Lynch.

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Piozzi British  

/ ˈpjɔːtsɪ /

noun

1. Hester Lynch. See (Hester Lynch) Thrale

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Example Sentences

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

Hester Piozzi, one of the most influential literary women of the late 18th Century, petitioned the king to allow her husband's nephew to adopt her maiden name of Salusbury, and thus continue it to posterity.

From BBC

Johnson used to talk of this very frankly, and Mrs. Piozzi has preserved his very picturesque description of the scene as it remained upon his fancy.

From Project Gutenberg

But it was rather against the third-rate copies of third-rate artists—the “ship-loads of dead Christs, Holy Families and Madonnas”—that his indignation was directed; and in speaking of his attitude with regard to the great masters of art, it is well to remember his words to Mrs Piozzi:—“The connoisseurs and I are at war, you know; and because I hate them, they think I hate Titian—and let them!”

From Project Gutenberg

He augmented and published a “Welsh Rhetoric, or Egluryn Fraethineb,” which was originally written by William Salusbury, and is commended by Dr. Davies. p. 56Hester Lynch Piozzi, was the daughter of John Salusbury, of Bodvel, in Caernarvonshire. 

From Project Gutenberg