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
It was here," observed the cicerone, in his customary indifferent tone, "that among seventeen others was found the skeleton of the lady whose mould is exhibited at the Naples Museum.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
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
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
Among memorable cicerones in Italy was one whom we saw at Pisa, where we stopped on our way from Leghorn after our accident in the Maremma, and spent an hour in viewing the Quattro Fabbriche.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
The cicerones looked at each other in amazement; the young soldier's questions startled them.
From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg
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
But in walking about the museum with Mr. Bradshaw, he was the most brilliant of ciceroni.
From The Emancipated by George Gissing
On the shafts are seated two boys, picked up on the road from Torre del Greco or Pouzzoles, probably supernumerary ciceroni of the antiquities of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 by Various
Our ciceroni were much pained and scandalized at an indifference which exceeded all they had yet encountered in the matter-of-fact Signori Inglesi.
From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
But in any case Herodotus can only have seen fragments, easily misinterpreted, easily explained by local ciceroni as relics of something quite unlike the facts.
From Ancient Town-Planning by F. (Francis) Haverfield
