piazza

plural piazzas · plural piazze

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 EnglandUSdateddialectalespeciallyA 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. UKA roofed gallery or arcade (for example around a public square or in front of a building).

plural Piazzas

1. A surname.