tazza
Americannoun
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tazzas,
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tazze
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tazza
1835–45; < Italian < Arabic ṭassah basin. See tass
Example Sentences
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It was extraordinary that they should be sharing this "tazza" thus.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mantelpiece was ornamented with a clock inserted in a block of mahogany and surmounted with a tazza, and two large vases of white porcelain with gold lines, which held bunches of Cape heather.
From The Lily of the Valley by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
This Museum contains a well-known tazza, or flat cup, of onyx entire, elaborately carved in cameo on either side.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
It is a large jar, or tazza, having several small jars moulded around its shoulder,* these small jars being sometimes interspersed with, and sometimes wholly replaced by, figures of animals.**
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
The works by his hand are remarkable for their ruby tint, with a beautiful metallic lustre; but only one small tazza remains in Gubbio itself.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The pieces were designed to serve as candlesticks, salt-cellars, tazzas, ewers, holy-water pots and dishes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
But the drinking glasses with their fragile stems are really beautiful; and so are the vases and tazzas from white glass with enamel work or filigree of delicately blended colors.
From The Story of Glass by C.P. Gray
By Gasparo and Girolamo Misuroni, engravers of Milan, have been seen most beautiful vases and tazze of crystal.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi by Gaston du C. De Vere
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