cicisbei
- plural of cicisbeo.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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 Smollett, T. (Tobias)
