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
With such a cicerone, we started on our rounds.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field
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
"A miracle! a miracle!" cried both the cicerones simultaneously.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg
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
M. Morrel turned to the cicerones, who were waiting in silent bewilderment.
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 folly of ciceroni often cites this name as "Ridiculous."
From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare
Such places are like well-frequented inns, where any body and every body is at home, and where every body influences the manners for the time being—there will be found cafés, carriages, and ciceroni.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Those useful ciceroni in Venice, the Signori Carlo and Sarri, seem to have had Byron's description in mind.
From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley
The eyes of the stranger lighted on her, and his voice laughed in mellow music to his companions and ciceroni.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
