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patio
[ pat-ee-oh, pah-tee-oh ]
noun
- an area, usually paved, adjoining a house and used as an area for outdoor lounging, dining, etc.
- a courtyard, especially of a house, enclosed by low buildings or walls.
patio
/ ˈæɪˌəʊ /
noun
- an open inner courtyard, esp one in a Spanish or Spanish-American house
- an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of patio1
Example Sentences
More than eight years ago, his wife’s lover and an accomplice fatally stabbed celebrity hair stylist Fabio Sementilli on his Woodland Hills patio in what was made to look like a home invasion gone wrong.
I wanted a cake that felt like eating fruit in the sun, like something you’d be served on the ivy-covered patio of a neighborhood trattoria, the air thick with early summer heat.
After play readings last fall that launched the theater, cast members and theatergoers mingled and conversed on the patio outside the building.
The Army Corps crews will not remove pools, most driveways, and patios or sidewalks that are outside the ash footprint.
But Tim comes out of his daydream, seated at the patio table where things left off in last week’s episode.
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