Ulysses vocabulary

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piazzetta

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Definition:
An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas.

Jer. Taylor.
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drill and deploy like a regiment, in file, in open order, in mass, the same famous and familiar structures, bring into actual contact the two columns on the Piazzetta which a moment ago were so far apart,

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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