Piozzi
[pee-ot-see; Italian pyawt-tsee]
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noun
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Walpole was in a position to know all current gossip, and so was Mrs. Piozzi.
The Valet's Tragedy and Other StoriesAndrew Lang
They called her an amorous widow, and Piozzi a fortune-hunter.
Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Hesther Lynch Piozzi
Perhaps Scott was thinking of a passage in Mrs. Piozzi's Anec.
Life Of Johnson, Volume 5Boswell
See Mrs. Piozzi's Synonymy, i. 323, for an anecdote of this walk.
Life Of Johnson, Volume 5Boswell
Mrs. Piozzi writes as if Johnson's censure had been passed in 1816 and not in 1774.
Life Of Johnson, Volume 5Boswell
Piozzi
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