All 9 Uses of
piazza
in
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Sometimes he would complain of the heat of the tea room, and order his supper to be placed on a small table in the piazza.†
Chpt 6 *
- The storeroom opened upon a piazza.†
Chpt 21
- When I heard them talking on the piazza, my heart almost stood still.†
Chpt 22
- As he stepped out on the piazza, he stumbled over my little girl.†
Chpt 25
- I came down as soon as it was light, and remained till eight o'clock, when people began to be about, and there was danger that some one might come on the piazza.†
Chpt 25
- My grandmother brought the children out on the piazza, that I might hear their voices.†
Chpt 26
- I slipped through the trap-door into the storeroom, and my uncle kept watch at the gate, while I passed into the piazza and went up stairs, to the room I used to occupy.†
Chpt 27
- As she stood there, trembling and sobbing, a voice from the piazza called out, "Whar is you, aunt Marthy?"†
Chpt 29
- I did not dare to venture beyond the storeroom; so they brought him there, and locked us up together, in a place concealed from the piazza door.†
Chpt 29
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)