cicerone

A surprising glimpse, a quarter-century into the millennium: The reassuring figure of the Anglican clergyman—enthusiast; amateur; generous of spirit, perhaps to a fault—acting cicerone among a dozen churches he’s identified as “buildings that made Christianity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

A certified cicerone, co-owner Chris Elford also helped start the great beer joint Proletariat in New York’s East Village.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2016

So I called on a friend I will call Cicero to be my cicerone.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016

He’s become a docent of decay, the cicerone of Newtown Creek.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2012

My cicerone seemed astonished at my stupendous ignorance.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

For newcomers to Holy Mountain, its lineup is a good primer on what many cicerones consider to be one of the best breweries in the Northwest, if not the entire West Coast.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

Many, many times I've wondered what it would be like to go A group of foreign correspondents with Nazi cicerones last week completed a 2,500-mile tour of occupied Ukraine.

From Time Magazine Archive

M. Morrel turned to the cicerones, who were waiting in silent bewilderment.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg

Some of the officers now assumed the part of cicerones, to show the distinguished strangers the bowels of the frigate, concerning which several of them showed a good deal of intelligent curiosity.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

The cicerones looked at each other in amazement; the young soldier's questions startled them.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg

We were so enchanted by what we heard about Hyderabad, that we resolved to start thither the very next morning, when our ciceroni and companions destroyed all our plans by a single word.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

The hotels are crammed; and as we are all here, and what with ciceroni, carriage hire, &c, every day is like a week of common living.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey

In this respect they are no worse than the other whole tribe of ciceroni, who assuredly are among the greatest bores that necessity imposes.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

The men alone interested me; I abhorred remarkable monuments, celebrated collections, and ciceroni; the Galerie Verte of Dresden almost drove me mad.

From Annouchka A Tale by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The drivers of Niagara Falls are excellent ciceroni.

From By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna S. Wisthaler