vaporetto
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of vaporetto
1945–50; < Italian, equivalent to vapor ( e ) steamboat + -etto -et
Example Sentences
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After a hearty breakfast, we caught the vaporetto to Murano, the outlying island famous for its glassworks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
Soon, we were back on the vaporetto for a sunset ride to Al Covo, the culinary high-water mark of our family trip to Venice a decade earlier—and our parents’ honeymoon 25 years before that.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
There are more than a few sections that feel oversaturated, to pick a fitting metaphor for Venice, where climate change laps at every canal-side palazzo and vaporetto stop.
From New York Times • May 22, 2023
It is claimed that some time before the film started, Phoenix arrived by vaporetto at the nearby Excelsior hotel.
From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2010
Half an hour, and the next vaporetto stop was miles away.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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