piatza

plural piatzas

1. Marketplace, meeting place.

   Piatza = market-place, meeting-place [...] Shakspere seems to use place in this sense in The Taming of the Shrew, i. I. 'Padua, a public place '

   1874, John Milton, edited by J. W. Hales, Milton Areopagitica Edited With Introduction and Notes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Notes, page 84

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   Sometimes 5 Imprimaturs are ſeen together dialogue-wiſe in the Piatza of one Title page, complementing and ducking each other with their ſhav'n reverences

   1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 8

plural piatzas

1. A shaman among the indigenous peoples of Guyana.

   The Indian tribes in Guiana have mystery-men, called Piatzas, or Piaies, who constitute a powerful priesthood.

   1876, Carl Engel, “Music and Medicine”, in Musical Myths and Facts, volume II, London: Novello, Ewer & Co., […], pages 89–90