terrazzo

See also: terrazzò

English

Etymology

From Italian terrazzo.

Noun

terrazzo (countable and uncountable, plural terrazzos)

  1. (architecture) A faux-marble material used for flooring and countertops.
    • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 265:
      A fibreglass fish should have been spewing water into a terrazzo fountain, but the pipes had not yet been connected and bags of cement were heaped in the basin.
    • 2007, January 4, “Fred A. Bernstein”, in Art Above and Below, With Life in the Middle‎:
      Richard Sammons […] began by leaving the ground floor studio pretty much as he found it, with 15-foot ceilings and a black terrazzo floor.

See also

Italian

Etymology

From terra, or from Vulgar Latin *terraceus, from Latin terra. Related to terrazza. Cf. also terraccio, terracia. Compare Spanish terrazo.

Noun

terrazzo m (plural terrazzi)

  1. balcony
  2. terrace

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Verb

terrazzo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of terrazzare
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