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noun

Patio n. (Metal)

A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation. Note: The patio process is used to reduce silver ores by amalgamation.

In Spain, Spanish America, etc., a court or courtyard of a house or other building; esp., an inner court open to the sky.

A usually paved area adjacent to a dwelling, used for outdoor lounging, dining, receptions of guests, etc.

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Etymology of 'Patio'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Patio" Quotes from Famous Books

... the tiny library shut, fastened it to the belt of her sunsuit and went over to the open window. A two-foot ledge passed beneath the window, leading to the roof of a patio on the right. Fifty yards beyond the patio, the garden ended in a natural-stone wall. Behind it lay one of the big wooded park areas which formed most of the ground level of ...

— Novice • James H. Schmitz

... the party exchanged glances of dismay as they alighted from their cars in the great cobbled courtyard or patio, to find themselves stared at by a motley crew of men, women and children, and to see pigs, dogs, asses and ...

— Bandit Love • Juanita Savage

... court providing the surrounding chambers with light as in the palaces of the Orient. The doors were merely half-doors of escape, parts of larger ones. All life was concentrated around the interior, the central patio, rich and magnificent, adorned with fish ponds, statues and ...

— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... as a dwelling. Adjacent to it, and lining the plaza, are spacious colonial edifices, once the homes of wealth and culture, each shaded by graceful palms and each enclosing its inner garden, or patio, where tropical plants and aromatic shrubs riot in richest color and ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... Peruvian monarch is described in simple but animated style by the Conqueror so often quoted, one of the party. "Llegados al patio de la dicha casa que tenia delante della, vimos estar en medio de gran muchedumbre de Indios asentado aquel gran Senor Atabalica (de quien tanta noticia, y tantas cosas nos habian dicho) con una corona en la cabeza, y una borla que le salia della, y le cubria toda la frente, ...

— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott

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