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cicerone
[ sis-uh-roh-nee, chich-uh-; Italian chee-che-raw-ne ]
noun
- a person who conducts sightseers; guide.
cicerone
/ ˌtʃɪtʃ-; ˌsɪsəˈrəʊnɪ /
noun
- a person who conducts and informs sightseers; a tour guide
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of cicerone1
Example Sentences
Much like the duality of his shop, Simon is half goateed-rocker, half cicerone sage.
A young Englishman, a wine merchant, accompanied us in our journey through this sultry valley and was our cicerone.
What I needed, when I arrived, was an honest and disinterested cicerone to put me on my guard against people and things.
Their cicerone was a very tall staff-officer who looked slightly worried by his cosmopolitan responsibilities.
An intelligent Jew was our cicerone, and read us some Hebrew out of the precious old book of the law.
M. Piron, the cicerone and the very humble servant of M. Dupin, multiplied his formul of adulation.
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