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plaza|ˈplɑːzə, formerly ˈplɑːθa, ˈplɑːsa|
[Sp.:—pop. L. *plattia:—L. platea: see place n.]
In a Spanish-speaking country, A market-place, square, public place. Also U.S., a public square or open space; in extended uses (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.), a large paved area surrounded by or adjacent to buildings, esp. as a feature of a shopping complex. Also attrib.
1683J. Salgado (title) A Description of the Plaza or Sumptuous Market-Place of Madrid. 1826F. B. Head Pampas 176 In the centre of the town there is a Plaza or great square. 1844J. Gregg Commerce of Prairies II. 77 Two or three miles above the plaza there is a dam of stone and brush. 1850Prescott Peru II. 129 The Spanish soldiery assembled by torch-light in the plaza to witness the execution of the sentence. 1852Knickerbocker XL. 197 The spirit-stirring fife and drum, and the roar of cannon on the plaza [at New Orleans], announce the hour for morning parade. 1856G. H. Derby Phoenixiana 126 Every citizen..was aroused at 2 a.m. by the soul-stirring and tremendous report of the Plaza Artillery. 1884Sweet & Knox Through Texas xxiii. 307 Old Gen. Ignacio Barterra ‘cussed’ a forty-foot steeple on the old church on the plaza. 1907S. E. White Arizona Nights iii. 47 A freight outfit brought him to Tucson and dumped him down on the plaza. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 20 Nov. 14 (caption) All tolls for travel across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge will be paid at booths on the 1000-foot toll plaza on the Western Shore approach to the bridge. 1957Times 2 Dec. 13/1 Shopping..is simplified [in Canada] by the presence of suburban shopping plazas..an enormous parking lot encircled by branches of the down-town stores. 1959Ottawa Citizen 11 July 21/7 Two plazas with parking facilities and offices for Customs and Immigration..are to be built. 1961L. Mumford City in Hist. Note to plate 62, Ossip Zadkine's sculpture..placed on a plaza fronting the inner Harbor of Rotterdam. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 103 She came..into a plaza teeming with corduroy, denim, bare legs,..students in nose-to-nose dialogue. 1969Guardian 15 July 10/6 There is no place nearer to hell than the all-under-one-roof shopping ‘plaza’. 1969Parade (N.Y.) 14 Dec. 18/3 It is not at all uncommon..to see hippies and Indians sitting together in the town's main plaza, sharing a canteen of water or a pack of cigarettes. 1974Sci. Amer. Feb. 99/3 Bending and shear forces are maximum at the plaza (ground floor) level. 1975N.Y. Times 16 Oct. 43/6 Scheduled for completion in one year, it will have 24 tennis courts, 14 tennis ‘alleys’ for practice,..and a 13,000-square-foot covered plaza, including an arcade, between 56th and 57th Streets. |