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

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

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

We visited the new and old palaces in company with a small mob of travellers of all nations, whose disorderly tendencies were restrained by the palace cicerones.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

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

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

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

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

A visit to the Studio Powers—or Pousse, as the ciceroni and valets-de-place called it—was an obligatory part of the tourist's regular work in "doing" Florence.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

I have a traveller's dislike to officious ciceroni, and did not-altogether like the garb of the applicant.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various

But in walking about the museum with Mr. Bradshaw, he was the most brilliant of ciceroni.

From The Emancipated by George Gissing