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
Ms. Mion said she finds it reassuring to know that, when the time comes for Edoardo to join in the family business, he can rely on his father as a cicerone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2022
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
The captain went foremost, for he was cicerone.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
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
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
At last one of the cicerones managed to explain that they had seen the maniac!
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg
Till midnight we sat chatting with the different ciceroni who came up to offer their services.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The ciceroni and books mention twelve other visitations, several of which are known only by name.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
How the Continental ciceroni must hate him, whoever he is!
From Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray
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
But in walking about the museum with Mr. Bradshaw, he was the most brilliant of ciceroni.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
