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vaporetto|væpɒˈrɛtəʊ|
Pl. -etti, -ettos.
[It., dim. vapore f. L. vapor steam.]
In Venice, a canal motor-boat (orig. steamboat), used as a form of public transport.
1926C. Beaton Diary 25 Aug. in Wandering Years (1961) v. 121 We set off blindly, taking the vaporetto. 1941W. Graham Night Journey v. 62, I can catch a vaporetto from the Quay. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond xxiv. 278, I remember it when there was nothing on the canals but gondolas, none of those horrid steamers and vaporetti. 1963Economist 6 Apr. 37/1 The tourists..prefer the speed of the municipally-owned vaporettos to the romance of the older hand-driven craft [sc. gondolas]. 1977Time 28 Nov. 30/3 Other names..soon became household words at the staid Café Florian, on every vaporetto water bus and in the intellectual salons of the Salute island. 1984New Yorker 23 Apr. 92/3 As soon as I got off the vaporetto, I felt that this was where I should be. |