cicerone
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Etymology
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
He brushed down his sharp checked blazer and entered, greeting Naomi Hample, an Argosy owner and autograph cicerone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2019
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
Sometimes the captain's wife is cicerone and hostess.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada
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
M. Morrel turned to the cicerones, who were waiting in silent bewilderment.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Flagg, Edmund
They say that nothing is more common with vulgar cicerones than to attribute to a great master any old work of uncertain origin.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
Such places are like well-frequented inns, where any body and every body is at home, and where every body influences the manners for the time being—there will be found cafés, carriages, and ciceroni.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
My sons, who were our stewards and ciceroni, had ordered a basket of provisions to be brought by the carriage, that we might dine au frais near the monuments, the objects of our visit.
From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby
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 folly of ciceroni often cites this name as "Ridiculous."
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
A visit to the Studio Powers—or Pousse, as the ciceroni and valets-de-place called it—was an obligatory part of the tourist's regular work in "doing" Florence.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various
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