Meaning

An Italian drawing room..

Example Sentences

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

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.

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; […]

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

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.

Word Forms

• salottos

When Should You Use Salotto?

Use salotto when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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