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

He brushed down his sharp checked blazer and entered, greeting Naomi Hample, an Argosy owner and autograph cicerone.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2019

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

Our astonishment, already excited, is increased when our cicerone tells us that he pays as rent and in subscriptions to stakes to be run for, nearly two thousand pounds per annum for that stand.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various