pizzo.
lace, needle lace
Meaning & usage
lace, needle lace
goatee
peak, spur
Where this word comes from
Either from an onomatopoeic root or from Lombardic (s)pizza, from Proto-Germanic *spitjaz, related to *spitō (“spike”), whence German Spitze (“peak”).
protection money paid to the mafia
Where this word comes from
From Sicilian pizzu, itself shortened from capizzu (“pillow”), metaphorically “place where one finds tranquility," probably ultimately from Latin caput (“head”).
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