Meanings
nounpasseggiata (plural passeggiatas)
plural passeggiatas
- A long, leisurely walk or stroll.
This was the food in the old dining room—the homely mensa—before some disgruntled worker blew the whistle, informing the health department that cockroaches had been seen strolling around the kitchen on a passeggiata.
2007, David M. Gross, Fast Company: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 94
Origin
- Italianpasseggiata
- Italianpasseggiata
- Englishpasseggiata
Borrowed from Italian passeggiata.
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