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Definition

architecture: Italian term for a plaza (large open square created or defined by several buildings forming a perimeter enclosure)

They filmed it at the Piazza Navona in Rome.

piazza = Italian term for a plaza (large open square created or defined by several buildings forming a perimeter enclosure)

He works on the next street over, between here and the piazza.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War

piazza = Italian for a plaza

Robert Langdon dashed down the stairs outside the church and into the middle of the piazza.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons

piazza = architecture: Italian term for a plaza (large open square created or defined by several buildings forming a perimeter enclosure)

" I recollected that that lunatic Basteshaw had spoken of this Ghiberti and so I followed the man's directions to the Piazza del Duomo.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Wasn't the Piazza San Marco famous for its pigeons?
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
And our night in Piazza di Spagna when I touched your lips and imagined Fanny's cheek against mine.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
At four o'clock on Sunday, less than two weeks before Thanksgiving, Mr. Clem held his drawing on the hotel piazza.
Olive Ann Burns -- Cold Sassy Tree
She looked like so many of the pretty, seemingly aimless girls I'd seen slinking around Rome's churches and piazzas.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
The person dipped and circled like a bat in a square behind the Piazza San Marco.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
The piazza whereon it faced was empty save for an old man gathering cigarette butts with a spiked stick.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Everywhere he looked, there were wide piazzas and traffic-clogged streets.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
The table was perfect—shaded, with a view of the piazza's central fountain, and heavy enough, we were sure, to secure an excitable hundred-pound Lab.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
The lodge was his piazza, his pavement cafe.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
I am going to breakfast with one of these fellows who is at the Piazza Hotel, in Covent Garden.'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
Others crowded round the swinging doors of the coffee-house in the Piazza.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
From this piazza the wondering Ichabod entered the hall, which formed the centre of the mansion, and the place of usual residence.
Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Round the house was a wide piazza, where the mountain winds blew, sweet with all wood-scents.
Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
Can you tell us where we can obtain a sight of the Piazza del Popolo?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
That's what enabled Western man to spend decades building a Gothic cathedral or a Renaissance piazza.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I wonder yet, that he should mount his bank, Here in this nook, that has been wont t'appear In face of the Piazza!
Ben Jonson -- Volpone

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