cicisbeo
Americannoun
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cicisbei
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cicisbeo
From Italian
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His account of the cicisbeo and his duties, whether in Nice, Florence, or Rome, is certainly one of the most interesting that we have.
From Travels through France and Italy by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Heretofore, he had shunned everything that could secure for him the reputation of a cicisbeo.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
That was the meaning of her smile, and probably of the spiteful words she murmured in the ear of her cicisbeo, telling him my history no doubt, rating mine as a common love affair.
From The Magic Skin by Ellen Marriage
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
The cicisbeo, or gentleman usher to a lady; from the French.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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
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
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
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