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piano nobile
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piano nobile [ˈpjɑːnəʊ ˈnəʊbɪlɪ]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Architect the main floor of a large house, containing the reception rooms: usually of lofty proportions
[Italian: great floor]


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9) A wooden loggia constructed above this portico served as a passageway between the piani nobili of both palaces, probably providing a prototype for the double arcade now forming the porch completed during the papacy of Sixtus IV.
 
 
 
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