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In Italian, a street; especially in Venice, where the streets, having no carriage way and being paved from house to house with smooth blocks of stone, have no need of width and are what would be called in English alleys. The few wider thoroughfares in Venice take different names, as via, and on the waterfronts, fondamenta, riva. (Sturgis, 1900)

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