English

Noun

terrazzo ‎(countable and uncountable, plural terrazzos)

1. (architecture) A faux-marble material used for flooring and countertops.
   • 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 265:

     A fibreglass fish should have been spewing water into a terrazzo fountain, but the pipes had not yet been connected and bags of cement were heaped in the basin.

   • 2007, January 4, “Fred A. Bernstein”, in Art Above and Below, With Life in the Middle:

     Richard Sammons […] began by leaving the ground floor studio pretty much as he found it, with 15-foot ceilings and a black terrazzo floor.

See also

• terrazzo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

terrazzo m ‎(plural terrazzi)

1. balcony
2. terrace

Synonyms

• balcone (1)
• terrazza (1,2)

Derived terms

• terrazzino

Verb

terrazzo

1. first-person singular present indicative of terrazzare