tazza

American  

[taht-suh, taht-tsah] / ˈtɑt sə, ˈtɑt tsɑ /

noun

• tazzas,
  plural
• tazze
  plural

1. a shallow, saucerlike, ornamental bowl, often having handles and usually on a high base or pedestal.

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tazza British  

/ ˈtætsə /

noun

1. a wine cup with a shallow bowl and a circular foot

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tazzas
  plural
• tazze
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tazza

1835–45; < Italian < Arabic ṭassah basin. See tass

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tazza tazzas tazze

It was extraordinary that they should be sharing this "tazza" thus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mantelpiece was ornamented with a clock inserted in a block of mahogany and surmounted with a tazza, and two large vases of white porcelain with gold lines, which held bunches of Cape heather.

From The Lily of the Valley by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

I held an old silver tazza, on which the ring was placed. 

From Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions by Henry Festing Jones

Upon a table near him are a silver tazza, and other objects relative to his occupation.

From Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. by John Burnet

The works by his hand are remarkable for their ruby tint, with a beautiful metallic lustre; but only one small tazza remains in Gubbio itself.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

The pieces were designed to serve as candlesticks, salt-cellars, tazzas, ewers, holy-water pots and dishes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various

But the drinking glasses with their fragile stems are really beautiful; and so are the vases and tazzas from white glass with enamel work or filigree of delicately blended colors.

From The Story of Glass by C.P. Gray

By Gasparo and Girolamo Misuroni, engravers of Milan, have been seen most beautiful vases and tazze of crystal.

From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi by Gaston du C. De Vere