salotto

English

Etymology

From Italian salotto.

Noun

salotto (plural salottos)

1. An Italian drawing room.
   • 1976, George L[eonard] Hersey, Pythagorean Palaces: Magic and Architecture in the Italian Renaissance, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 160:

     On the other hand exedras or reception rooms, painting galleries, and salottos other than Corinthian, were half-cubes.

   • 1996, Thomas Tuohy, Herculean Ferrara: Ercole d’Este (1471–1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture), Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 315:

     These included the decision to dismantle and rebuild the stairs at the head of a salotto which led to the room looking onto the cortile segreto, and to dismantle part of a ceiling to accommodate the new vault in the vaulted salotto.

   • 1999, Olga Raggio, The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservation, volumes I (Federico da Montefeltro’s Palace at Gubbio and Its Studiolo), New York, N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, pages 62 and 79, column 2:

     Its vigorously carved acanthus frieze (fig. 4-29) and its classical foliated consoles and pilasters recall the chimneypiece in the salotto of the duchess’s apartment at Urbino (fig. 4-30), executed under Francesco di Giorgio, perhaps by Ambrogio Barocci. […] Thus the vestibule, the courtyard, and the staircase and the sala and the salotto on the piano nobile functioned as lochi publici (public areas), accessible to all visitors; […]

   • 2002, Paula Weideger, Venetian Dreaming, New York, N.Y.: Washington Square Press, Atria Books, →ISBN, pages 146–147:

     We saw the salotto on the other side of the portego, with its many historically important papers and maps.

   • 2007, Jonathan White, Italian Cultural Lineages, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 235:

     All good salottos have need of a hostess, who puts her guests at their ease and encourages them to enter into the spirit of the occasion.

Italian

Etymology

From sala +‎ -otto; cognate with Piedmontese salòt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈlɔt.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔtto
• Hyphenation: sa‧lòt‧to

• Audio

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Noun

salotto m (plural salotti)

1. drawing room, reception room, living room, sitting room, lounge, den
2. (by extension, furniture) suite (furniture for such a room)
3. salon, cenacle

   salotto letterario ― literary salon

Related terms

• salottiero