vaporetto

Examples

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• Richard looks over the cafe railing at the queue of people waiting for the vaporetto: children with black satchels going to school by boat, women with net bags crossing the canal for morning errands, tourists laden with suitcases headed to the train.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Andrea loves riding on the vaporetto.

  Fiction book (1991)

• I was on a vaporetto.

  Don't Look Now (1973)

• When the vaporetto comes, Richard walks out to the front deck.

  Fiction book (1991)

• At Murano, they get off the vaporetto.

  Fiction book (1991)

• In the morning, they'll take the vaporetto to the train, and then the train to Florence.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Public transit is by vaporetto, a large motorboat that carries about 150 people and is the Venetian equivalent of a bus.

  Academic text (2001)

• To explore the city of Venice, we took a vaporetto along the beautiful canals.

• The vaporetto service provides an essential link between the islands of Venice.

• After visiting the famous glass factories, we caught a vaporetto back to the main island.

Synonyms

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canal boat

vsvaporetto

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A long narrow boat that carries people or goods on canals

is used specifically as motorized public transport in Venice canals

Surface Forms

Etymology