sestieren.
In Italy: one of six districts or areas of a city. Cf. quartiere n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > other areas
friars1479
foreign1514
acropolis1570
sestiere1599
shopping district1837
downstreet1865
Latin Quarter1869
midtown1882
club-land1885
flat-land1889
brick area1895
turf1953
grey area1959
office park1963
bed-sitter-land1968
edge city1968
1599 L. Lewkenor tr. G. Contarini Commonw. & Gouernment Venice 185 The Citie of Venice is divided into sixe parts, which they call Sestieri.
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 151 This City [sc. Venice] is..divided into six parts or regions, called thence Sestieri.
1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics iv. 84 The town [of Florence] was divided into six parts, each sestier, as it was called, named two anziani.
1893 J. A. Symonds tr. A. Condivi in Life of Michelangelo I. i. 2 He was appointed captain of a Sestiere; for Florence in those days was divided into Sestieri, instead of Quartieri.
1934 Burlington Mag. Sept. 100/1 St. Peter, the patron of the sestiere of the town which he represented.
1980 Times 8 Dec. (Winter Holidays Suppl.) p. v/4 The most satisfactory way of tackling the surface of [Venetian] sights is to concentrate on one of the city's six sestieri (districts) at a time.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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