cicerone

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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

On the entrance of so illustrious a person as Cicero on the historical scene, it is fit that we should act the part of cicerone, for the purpose of introducing him.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?