Both Uses of
piazza
in
Moby Dick
- For my humor's sake, I shall preserve the style in which I once narrated it at Lima, to a lounging circle of my Spanish friends, one saint's eve, smoking upon the thick-gilt tiled piazza of the Golden Inn.†
Chpt 52-54 *
- Now, with elated step, they pace the planks in twos and threes, and humorously discourse of parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics; propose to mat the deck; think of having hanging to the top; object not to taking tea by moonlight on the piazza of the forecastle.†
Chpt 97-99
Definition:
architecture: Italian term for a plaza (large open square created or defined by several buildings forming a perimeter enclosure)