Both Uses of
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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- Others crowded round the swinging doors of the coffee-house in the Piazza.†
Chpt 7 *
- …him, and who, when his brain had sickened and grown strange, could only be soothed by Saracen cards painted with the images of Love and Death and Madness; and, in his trimmed jerkin and jewelled cap and acanthus-like curls, Grifonetto Baglioni, who slew Astorre with his bride, and Simonetto with his page, and whose comeliness was such that, as he lay dying in the yellow piazza of Perugia, those who had hated him could not choose but weep, and Atalanta, who had cursed him, blessed him.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(piazza) architecture: Italian term for a plaza (large open square created or defined by several buildings forming a perimeter enclosure)