cicerone
a person who conducts sightseers; guide.
Origin of cicerone
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How to use cicerone in a sentence
Much like the duality of his shop, Simon is half goateed-rocker, half cicerone sage.
Look Out! There’s a Craft-Beer Revolution Taking Over France | Jeff Campagna | December 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA young Englishman, a wine merchant, accompanied us in our journey through this sultry valley and was our cicerone.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowWhat I needed, when I arrived, was an honest and disinterested cicerone to put me on my guard against people and things.
The Nabob | Alphonse DaudetTheir 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.
George Eliot's Life, Vol. II (of 3) | George Eliot
M. Piron, the cicerone and the very humble servant of M. Dupin, multiplied his formul of adulation.
Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino v.1/3, 1831-1835 | Dorothy Duchesse de Dino
British Dictionary definitions for cicerone
/ (ˌsɪsəˈrəʊnɪ, ˌtʃɪtʃ-) /
a person who conducts and informs sightseers; a tour guide
Origin of cicerone
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