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Etymology

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From Italian salotto.

Noun

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salotto (plural salottos)

  1. An Italian drawing room.
    • 1976, George L[eonard] Hersey, Pythagorean Palaces: Magic and Architecture in the Italian Renaissance, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 160:
      On the other hand exedras or reception rooms, painting galleries, and salottos other than Corinthian, were half-cubes.
    • 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, →ISBN, page 315:
      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.
    • 1999, Olga Raggio, The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation, volumes I (Federico da Montefeltro’s Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo), New York, N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, pages 62 and 79, column 2:
      Its vigorously carved acanthus frieze (fig. 4-29) and its classical foliated consoles and pilasters recall the chimneypiece in the salotto of the duchess’s apartment at Urbino (fig. 4-30), executed under Francesco di Giorgio, perhaps by Ambrogio Barocci. [] Thus the vestibule, the courtyard, and the staircase and the sala and the salotto on the piano nobile functioned as lochi publici (public areas), accessible to all visitors; []
    • 2002, Paula Weideger, Venetian Dreaming, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Atria Books, →ISBN, pages 146–147:
      We saw the salotto on the other side of the portego, with its many historically important papers and maps.
    • 2007, Jonathan White, Italian Cultural Lineages, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 235:
      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.

Italian

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Etymology

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From sala +‎ -otto; cognate with Piedmontese salòt.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /saˈlɔt.to/
  • Rhymes: -ɔtto
  • Hyphenation: sa‧lòt‧to
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Noun

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salotto m (plural salotti)

  1. drawing room, reception room, living room, sitting room, lounge, den
  2. (by extension, furniture) suite (furniture for such a room)
  3. salon, cenacle
    salotto letterarioliterary salon
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