salotto

salotto noun: an Italian drawing room.

Noun

salotto (plural salottos)

An Italian drawing room.
- On the other hand exedras or reception rooms, painting galleries, and salottos other than Corinthian, were half-cubes.1976, George L[eonard] Hersey, Pythagorean Palaces: Magic and Architecture in the Italian Renaissance, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 160
- These included the decision to dismantle and rebuild the stairs at the head of a salotto which led to the room looking onto the cortile segreto, and to dismantle part of a ceiling to accommodate the new vault in the vaulted salotto.1996, Thomas Tuohy, Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d’Este (1471–1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture), Cambridge University Press, published 2002...

We saw the salotto on the other side of the portego, with its many historically important papers and maps.2002, Paula Weideger, Venetian Dreaming, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Atria Books, →ISBN, pages 146–147:
All good salottos have need of a hostess, who puts her guests at their ease and encourages them to enter into the spirit of the occasion.2007, Jonathan White, Italian Cultural Lineages, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 235:

plural	salottos

Borrowed from Italian salotto.

What does salotto mean?: Salotto means an Italian drawing room.
How do you use salotto in a sentence?: We saw the salotto on the other side of the portego, with its many historically important papers and maps.
What part of speech is salotto?: Salotto is a noun.
What is the plural of salotto?: The plural of salotto is salottos.

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