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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
- Robert Langdon dashed down the stairs outside the church and into the middle of the piazza.Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
- " 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
piazza = Italian for a plaza
piazza = architecture: Italian term for a plaza (large open square created or defined by several buildings forming a perimeter enclosure)
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