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

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

Sometimes the captain's wife is cicerone and hostess.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

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

But he was accompanied by one of those explanatory gossips who seem born to serve as cicerones to the entire world, and render useless all penetrating perspicacity.

From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall

M. Morrel turned to the cicerones, who were waiting in silent bewilderment.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg

They say that nothing is more common with vulgar cicerones than to attribute to a great master any old work of uncertain origin.

From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy

Let all lovers of genuine relics look well to their money before they part with it to the ciceroni that swarm in the village of Waterloo.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay

To shew the lions and tombs; to point out the particular curiosities of any place, to act the ciceroni: an allusion to Westminster Abbey, and the Tower, where the tombs and lions are shewn.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

How the Continental ciceroni must hate him, whoever he is!

From Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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