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

Van Swieten was, as it were, the cicerone of the new comer, and attached young Beethoven to his person and to his house, where indeed the latter soon found himself at home.

From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler

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

The elephant had gone to take his place in the triumphal entry when Emmy Lou and her four cicerones, in their progress through the animal tent before the program, reached his roped-in inclosure.

From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by George Madden Martin

I found myself, therefore, all at once in the midst of all kinds of home comforts, domesticities, and distractions, with delightful cicerones in host and hostess, and charming little companions in their two children.

From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

Our cicerones treated us mercifully, but I believe some greenhorns are not so fortunate.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers

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

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

In almost all these galleries, museums, and gardens the stranger is permitted to wander about and linger as he pleases, entirely unmolested by officious servants and ignorant ciceroni.

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

There were clamorous beggars at all the sculptured portals, and bait for beggars, in abundance, trailing in and out of them under convoy of loquacious ciceroni.

From Italian Hours by Henry James

The folly of ciceroni often cites this name as "Ridiculous."

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare