Palazzo Definition & Meaning

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palazzo American [puh-laht-soh, pah-laht-tsaw] / pəˈlɑt soʊ, pɑˈlɑt tsɔ /

noun

plural

palazzi

1. an impressive public building or private residence; palace.

Etymology

Origin of palazzo

< Italian: literally, palace

Example Sentences

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“And this,” he said, “is Anja Trevasse. She owns the palazzo you can see, there, overlooking the Great Canal. And indeed much of the city.”

From Literature

Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

From The Wall Street Journal

That itself is a towering achievement, but Roy's grassroots origins in a nondescript tribal village in West Bengal state's Purulia district - thousands of miles from Venice's glamorous palazzos - makes her triumph even more meaningful.

From BBC

But he doesn’t bother to mount most of his oil paintings, leaving them stacked against the walls of his 16th century palazzo like dollar records at a flea market.

From Los Angeles Times

“For the Excelsior hotel in Rome,” says Gropman, “the exterior was the Hassler, the lobby was the Plaza, and two suites were an amazing 16th century palazzo in the middle of Rome.”

From Los Angeles Times

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