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‖ piano nobile Archit.|ˈpjano ˈnobile|
[It., f. piano floor, storey + nobile noble, great.]
The main storey of a large house, usually on the first floor, of lofty structure, and containing the principal apartments.
1909in Cent. Dict. Suppl., s.v. piano3. 1910Encycl. Brit. X. 527/1 The principal floor is the storey which contains the chief apartments whether on the ground- or first-floor; in Italy they are always on the latter and known as the ‘piano nobile’. 1922F. G. Ellerton Let. 14 Apr. in J. Bailey Lett. & Diaries (1935) 216 The great windows of the piano nobile and the fine ones of the second floor where the Strozzi still live after four hundred and fifty years! 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point iii. 37 Two flights up, between the piano nobile and the servants' quarters under the roof. 1939J. D. S. Pendlebury Archaeol. Crete iv. 186 The South Propylaeum, from which access was obtained to the ‘piano nobile’. 1955L. Woolley Alalakh iii. 94 The upper floor, the piano-nobile, no longer exists, but its principal room, the grand salon, can safely be reconstructed. 1965B. Sweet-Escott Baker St. Irreg. vi. 180 On the piano nobile was a large room in which Mr Bertram Mills himself had sat. 1970Guardian 16 Sept. 11/1 The ‘piano nobile’, entered through a colonnaded portico and up a curving flight of carpeted marble. 1974K. Clark Another Part of Wood vi. 238 The whole piano nobile, with beautiful ‘Adam’ rooms, marble chimney pieces and painted ceilings, was completely unnecessary. 1976J. Lees-Milne W. Beckford v. 70 The Octagon Cabinet..and the Crimson Breakfast Parlour..bring the apartments of the piano nobile of the Abbey to an end. |