saloncino
Appearance
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From salone + -cino (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]saloncino m (plural saloncini)
- small hall or room
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 9, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- Il coro che più di un anno prima aveva preso vita con Edith Childs e il suo vistoso cappello in un saloncino di Greenwood, nella Carolina del Sud, adesso si levava spontaneo, come un'onda che percorreva folle di quaranta o cinquantamila persone che gremivano i campi da football e i parchi cittadini, incuranti di un ottobre insolitamente caldo.
- The chant that had started with Edith Childs and her big hat in a small room in Greenwood, South Carolina, more than a year earlier now rose spontaneously, rippling through crowds of forty or fifty thousand, as people filled up football fields and city parks, undaunted by the unseasonably hot October weather.
- (literally, “The chorus that came to life more than a year earlier with Edith Childs and her showy hat in a small room in Greenwood, South Carolina, now took off spontaneously, like a wave that swept through crowds of forty or fifty thousand people who filled football fields and city parks, indifferent to an unusually hot October.”)