piazza
nounUK, US /piˈæt.sə/ · US /piˈæ.zə/
Etymology From Italian piazza. Doublet of piatza, place, and plaza.
1
A public square, especially in Italian cities.
- Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 43:
2
New England, US, Dated, Dialectal, Especially A veranda; a porch.
- Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
3
UK A roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).
- Derived terms
- piazzaed, piazzaless, piazzalike