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
We wandered about with Jusserand for our cicerone.
From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Waddington, Mary King
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 Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh
The most discreet of cicerones is an intruder when we open our old favourite, and, without further magic, retire into that delicious nook of eighteenth-century society.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
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
In almost all these galleries, museums, and gardens the stranger is permitted to wander about and linger as he pleases, entirely unmolested by officious servants and ignorant ciceroni.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
I have a traveler's dislike to officious ciceroni, and did not altogether like the garb of the applicant.
From Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans by Cody, Sherwin
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 Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
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
In this respect they are no worse than the other whole tribe of ciceroni, who assuredly are among the greatest bores that necessity imposes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
