cicerone
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Origin of cicerone
1720–30; Italian < Latin Cicerōnem, accusative of Cicerō Cicero, the guide being thought of as having the knowledge and eloquence of Cicero
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A surprising glimpse, a quarter-century into the millennium: The reassuring figure of the Anglican clergyman—enthusiast; amateur; generous of spirit, perhaps to a fault—acting cicerone among a dozen churches he’s identified as “buildings that made Christianity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
A certified cicerone, co-owner Chris Elford also helped start the great beer joint Proletariat in New York’s East Village.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
So I called on a friend I will call Cicero to be my cicerone.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
He’s become a docent of decay, the cicerone of Newtown Creek.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2012
We went for a drive with M. Mathias, who will be our cicerone here, as he knows Stockholm well.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
For newcomers to Holy Mountain, its lineup is a good primer on what many cicerones consider to be one of the best breweries in the Northwest, if not the entire West Coast.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Many, many times I've wondered what it would be like to go A group of foreign correspondents with Nazi cicerones last week completed a 2,500-mile tour of occupied Ukraine.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last one of the cicerones managed to explain that they had seen the maniac!
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund
Not long ago, during a rather stormy, wet day, I happened to notice several of these cicerones hiding in a doorway of one of the palaces, looking most disconsolate.
From The Art of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen
The general impression of Drs. Hirschfeld and Weil, when I was at Olympia, was against the accuracy of Pausanias, whom they considered to have blindly set down whatever the local cicerones told him.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
I have a traveller's dislike to officious ciceroni, and did not-altogether like the garb of the applicant.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various
The drivers of Niagara Falls are excellent ciceroni.
From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Wisthaler, Johanna S.
But in walking about the museum with Mr. Bradshaw, he was the most brilliant of ciceroni.
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
There were clamorous beggars at all the sculptured portals, and bait for beggars, in abundance, trailing in and out of them under convoy of loquacious ciceroni.
From Italian Hours by James, Henry
The hotels are crammed; and as we are all here, and what with ciceroni, carriage hire, &c, every day is like a week of common living.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
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