tazza

American  

[taht-suh, taht-tsah] / ˈtɑt sə, ˈtɑt tsɑ /

noun

• tazzas,
  plural
• tazze
  plural

1. a shallow, saucerlike, ornamental bowl, often having handles and usually on a high base or pedestal.

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tazza British  

/ ˈtætsə /

noun

1. a wine cup with a shallow bowl and a circular foot

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tazzas
  plural
• tazze
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of tazza

1835–45; < Italian < Arabic ṭassah basin. See tass

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tazza tazzas tazze

It was extraordinary that they should be sharing this "tazza" thus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tazza, or dish with stem, the same as that shown in our illustrations, is now the favourite shape for dessert-dishes.

From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Upon a table near him are a silver tazza, and other objects relative to his occupation.

From Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. by John Burnet

Here it is in two words: It is our most vivid desire that you should become our compare: that is, that you should hold the tazza containing the ring at our wedding. 

From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

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

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

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

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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