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At the kick-off this week, a strike of the vaporetto —the public-transport system on water—unleashed solidarity among the early crowds who shared water taxis from one exhibition to the next.
A New Look at the Art of Prada (Not Clothes) Christina Passariello 2011
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On the vaporetto to the Lido, the only place where he could find a room, he passed a palazzo on the Grand Canal where beautiful people in tuxedos and ball gowns stepped off gondolas and onto a dock illuminated by torches, before vanishing inside.
All Dressed Up to Save Venice Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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I heard a story once about a vaporetto driver, a Venetian boatman, at the turn of the last century.
Erica Heller: In Between Books: The 'Catch-22' of Pre- and Post-Partum Book Depression Erica Heller 2011
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I heard a story once about a vaporetto driver, a Venetian boatman, at the turn of the last century.
Erica Heller: In Between Books: The 'Catch-22' of Pre- and Post-Partum Book Depression Erica Heller 2011
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At the kick-off this week, a strike of the vaporetto —the public-transport system on water—unleashed solidarity among the early crowds who shared water taxis from one exhibition to the next.
A New Look at the Art of Prada (Not Clothes) Christina Passariello 2011
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I heard a story once about a vaporetto driver, a Venetian boatman, at the turn of the last century.
Erica Heller: In Between Books: The 'Catch-22' of Pre- and Post-Partum Book Depression Erica Heller 2011
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Ridden in a gondola in Venice (We did the cheaper vaporetto over to the fish market) 29.
Archive 2008-12-01 ____Maggie 2008
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Ridden in a gondola in Venice (We did the cheaper vaporetto over to the fish market) 29.
Random Acts Meme ____Maggie 2008
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I've given up S/Y Wretched Excess and am about to buy a reconditioned vaporetto the Serenissima let go of cheap.
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He glanced enviously at the handsome, wood-paneled cruiser, but she was right about the gaiety of riding the vaporetto.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
bilby commented on the word vaporetto
Italian. The classical meaning was steamer but in modern times it has come to refer to small passenger ferries.
December 1, 2008
rolig commented on the word vaporetto
The primary mode of public transportation in Venice.
December 2, 2008