tazza

American  

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

noun

plural

tazzas,

plural

tazze

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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Etymology

Origin of tazza

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

Example Sentences

Ah, godiam, la tazza e il cantico, as the spirited Alfredo sings in La Traviata.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Jesse, William

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

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 Brinkley, F. (Frank)