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‖ Riˈalto
[The name of the quarter of Venice in which the Exchange was situated.]
An exchange or mart. Also fig.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. I. iii. 108 Signior Anthonio, many a time and oft In the Ryalto you haue rated me About my monies and my vsances. 1611Coryat Crudities 169 The Rialto which is at the farther end of the bridge as you come from St. Marks, is a most stately building, being the Exchange of Venice, where the Venetian Gentlemen and the Merchants doe meete twice a day, betwixt eleuen and twelue of the clocke in the morning, and betwixt fiue and sixe of the clocke in the afternoone. 1869S. R. Hole Bk. about Roses i. 11 There the poor Rose-trees stand..in the spring a rialto, rendezvous, common-room, and tap for all the riff-raff of the insect world. 1879Scribner's Mag. XIX. 299/1 In Paris, all trades and callings have their Rialto. 1901Daily Chron. 23 Sept. 5/2 It was this..that made it some forty or fifty years ago the rialto of the West Indian islands. |