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
Why, Hurst, that little tazza should be in the big cabinet yonder, where the French jewel lies.
From The King's Esquires The Jewel of France by George Manville Fenn
At that period very young, and equally careless, I would not have parted with my large liquid tazza, my little lake, my leafy castle, for all the vulgar comfortable chateâux in the neighbourhood.
From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by William Jesse
The arciprete read the words and, at the proper moment, I handed the tazza, from which he took the ring and gave it to the bridegroom, who placed it upon the bride’s finger.
From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones
Some of you who read may have passed such marts in different parts of the city, or even have dropped in and purchased a bust or a tazza for a surprisingly small sum.
From The Mahatma and the Hare by Henry Rider Haggard
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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