cicisbeo
Americannoun
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cicisbei
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cicisbeo
From Italian
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The cicisbeo was the professed gallant of a married woman, who attended her at all public entertainments, it being considered unfashionable for the husband to be escort.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
Before Smollett and his almost contemporary travel correspondent, Samuel Sharp, it would probably be hard to find any mention of the cicisbeo in England, though the word was consecrated by Sheridan a few years later.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
And who are you that talk to me of dishonour?—you that come straying here out of the night with your cicisbeo at your heels?
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
These girls as a rule, were married early to men of their own standing, and though the cicisbeo was not unknown after marriage he was not an authorised member of the household.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
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
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