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| Uf·fi·zi [ yoo fítsee ] |
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art museum in Florence, Italy: a museum in Florence that contains one of the world's finest collections of Italian paintings. It is located in 16th-century buildings first used to house the Medici family's art collection, the nucleus of the museum's present holdings.
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| [Mid-19th century. < Italian, "offices," because built to house the administrative center of the Florentine state] |
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