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(Words that are Venetian rather than standard Italian are indicated by V in brackets)
Altana (V) – a wooden structure on the roof of buildings, used for various purposes (drying of clothes, taking of sun)
Arsenalotto (V) – a worker at the Arsenale
Bagattino – the smallest Venetian coin, worth 1/240th of a lira
Barene (V) – the low-lying marshy terrain of the lagoon, often submerged at high tide
Barnabotto (V) – a Venetian nobleman fallen on hard times and granted cheap rented accommodation in the parish of San Barnaba
Bauta (V) – white face-mask
Bondì (V) – Venetian for Buongiorno (good morning)
Bravo – a hired thug
Bricole (V) – poles driven into the mud of the canals or the lagoon to act as markers or mooring-poles
Buranello – native of the island of Burano; also the name for a local biscuit often taken with wine
Caigo (V) – fog
Caleghero (V) – a shoe-maker
Calle (V) – a narrow street
Campo (V) – a city square (in Italian the word indicates a field)
Campiello (V) – a smaller city square
Canalazzo (V) – alternative name for the Grand Canal
Casino (V) – small room or set of rooms, used by Venetian aristocrats for various leisure purposes, including gambling
Cavalier servente – see cicisbeo
Cicerone – tourist-guide
Cicisbeo – married woman’s semi-official gallant, sometimes her lover; also known as a
cavalier servente
Codega (V) – “link-boy” (hired escorts holding lanterns)
Confidente – a confidential agent
Cortesan (V) – literally a “courtier” (cortegiano in Italian); in Venetian indicating a gentlemanly man of the world
Cospetto – mild imprecation
Felze (V) – the cabin of a gondola
Filippo – coin, worth 11 lire
Fioi (V) – Venetian appellation, corresponding roughly to “lads”
Fondamenta (V) – road running alongside a canal
Fontego (V) – (also fondaco); literally a warehouse, but also a residence and meeting-place for foreign communities in Venice
Forcola (V) – the carved wooden structure on gondolas acting as a rowlock
Foresto (V) – Venetian for foreigner
Furatola (V) – a cheap tavern
Guagliò –abbreviation of guaglione, Neapolitan for “lad”
Illustrissimo – most illustrious or eminent; a term of respect, generally used in Venice to address those not of noble rank
Liston (V) – in Saint Mark’s Square, the area between the clock-tower and the pillars by the water-front, used as a fashionable parade-ground
Magazen (V) – cheap taverns, not allowed to serve cooked food
Malvasia – malmsey wine; also used as the name of taverns that served such wine
Marangon (V) – carpenter
Nicolotti (V) – inhabitants of western Venice (around the parish of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli); traditional rivals of the Castellani, inhabitants of eastern Venice
Osteria – hostelry or tavern
Passeggiata – stroll, particularly the evening stroll along the Liston
Piano nobile – the first floor of a Venetian palace; containing the principal rooms.
Portego (V) – the central and most splendid room of a Venetian palazzo
Ridotto – the government-owned gambling house at Palazzo Dandolo (literally “the closed-off or private room”)
Rio (V) – Venetian word for a canal
Salizada (V) – a broad street in Venice (one of the first to have been paved)
Salotto – a salon, often understood as a gathering-place for refined conversation
Salottiere – one who attends a salotto
Sandolo (V) – flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, of simpler build than a gondola
Sbirro – officer of the law; often used derogatorily
Scudo – coin worth 7 lire
Scuola – literally a school, but in Venice often used to refer to a charitable institution, a guild-hall, or a meeting-place for foreign communities, usually under the protection of a patron-saint
Sior/Siora (V) – Venetian for Signor/Signora
Sottoportego (V) – archway or passage under a building
Tabarro – cloak
Zaffo (V) – see sbirro; also often used derogatorily
Zecchino – the principal Venetian coin, worth 22 lire (origin of the word “sequin”)
Zuechino (V) – inhabitant of the Giudecca island (la Zueca, in Venetian)
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