palazzo
(paˈlattso)
[It.: see palace n.1]
1. Pl. palazzi. A palatial mansion; a large and imposing building.
| a 1666 Evelyn Diary an. 1644 (1955) II. 228 The Palazzo Barberini..I take to be as..princely an object, as any moderne building in Europ. 1758 M. W. Montagu Let. May (1967) III. 149 He brags..that you found the Palazzo very clean. 1892 W. James Let. 28 Dec. (1920) I. 335 You seem to me something ideal, off there in your inaccessible Cambridge palazzo. 1924 M. Arlen Green Hat v. 143 In drawing-rooms, up and down terraces of palazzos, in clubs and cabarets. 1930 E. Pound XXX Cantos xvii. 77 On past the palazzi. 1958 Oxf. Mag. 13 Mar. 357/2 What activities it [sc. the Institute of Statistics] wishes to pursue in the great palazzo which it now demands. 1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. v. 66 The taxis and government Humbers draw up outside the palazzi of Pall Mall, and bowlers and umbrellas disappear through the great stone doorways, acknowledged by reverent porters. 1968 ‘E. Lathen’ Stitch in Time i. 1 The..Sloan Guaranty Trust, an opulent palazzo of glass, marble and brass that had replaced the stately and venerable edifice on Pearl Street. 1978 W. M. Spackman Armful of Warm Girl 12 But now anyhow in her 73rd Street palazzo her phone rang. |
2. Usu. as
pl. palazzos. Loose, wide-legged trousers worn by women.
| 1972 New Yorker 9 Sept. 8/1 (Advt.), Our haltered palazzos come in champagne beige... The no-waistband, back-zip palazzos. 1973 Harper's Bazaar Apr. 5 (Advt.), Lollipops loll on a plunging palazzo... Shirring and sashing halt the halter above billowing pyjamas. 1973 Telegraph (Brisbane) 6 Sept. 18/2 Female employees..now are being permitted to wear the pants—in the form of trim pants suits, or, we guess, baggies—or palazzos, if they please. |
3. attrib. and
Comb., as (sense 2)
palazzo outfit,
palazzo pants,
palazzo pyjamas,
palazzo shape,
palazzo suit,
palazzo trouser;
palazzo sleeve, a wide, flowing sleeve.
| 1973 Today's Health Oct. 36/1 Linda stopped at the dry cleaners to pick up the flowered silk pallazzo [sic] outfit she planned to wear to the theater on Saturday. |
| 1972 New Yorker 7 Oct. 18/1 (Advt.), Velvety fleece palazzo pants. 1973 Woman's Day Sept. 168/1 (Advt.), Choose from smashing palazzo pants and clothes with the bare look. |
| 1966 Listener 3 Feb. 171/2 The mannequins start with a natural advantage over most other mortals. Who but they could wear palazzo pyjamas..made entirely of ostrich feathers. 1968 N.Y. Times 30 Apr. 52 All these varieties continued into the nineteen-sixties, when they were joined by such other forms as palazzo pajamas (wide enough to sweep around a palace in), culottes, pants dresses and pants suits. 1976 Times 1 Sept. (Fashion Suppl.) p. viii/5 Emilio Pucci..introduced..the famous palazzo pyjamas. |
| 1973 New Yorker 17 Mar. 56 (Advt.), We like the palazzo shape as a slashback culotte. |
| 1972 Ibid. 26 Aug. 55 (Advt.), Our fluid navy wool knit with permanent pleated polyester chiffon palazzo sleeves. |
| 1974 Country Life 3–10 Jan. 55/1 Drip-dry dresses and palazzo suits. |
| 1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 11/4 (Advt.), The palazzo-trouser. |