John Quijada wrote:
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> When I travelled in Italy, I saw several small restaurants and shops whose
> names were the word Ca' followed by a person's name, as in Ca' Giuseppe.
I
> assume it's a colloquial or dialectal shortening of _casa_ used exactly
> like French _chez_.
My impression has been that that's Venetian, or perhaps just Northern? In
Rome (a long time ago!) such places were Da .... (our favorite really cheap
trattoria was Da Menghi). Though I recall larger or fancy shops calling
themselve Casa So-and-so.....
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