cicisbeo
Americannoun
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cicisbei
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of cicisbeo
From Italian
Example Sentences
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It must be owned the Lady Louise had some excuse for a measure that seemed to have amazed and horrified her cicisbeo.
From At Last by Marion Harland
That was the meaning of her smile, and probably of the spiteful words she murmured in the ear of her cicisbeo, telling him my history no doubt, rating mine as a common love affair.
From The Magic Skin by Ellen Marriage
For my part, I would rather be condemned for life to the gallies, than exercise the office of a cicisbeo, exposed to the intolerable caprices and dangerous resentment of an Italian virago.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Ask the name, the husband, the wife, or the cicisbeo, of any person, et voila qui est fini.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham
This is a proud beauty of the people, who at other times wears the fazzoletto, that is a lady of position who seeks a cicisbeo.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
We divine the coming age of cicisbei and castrati.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The ladies sit within, and the cicisbei stand on the foot-boards, on each side of the coach, entertaining them with their discourse.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Before long he will be dust, and then it will be the turn of Don Gastone, and frati will give place to cicisbei.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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