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

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

The captain went foremost, for he was cicerone.

From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea

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

He was the most discreet and profitable of cicerones, with a real talent for making himself useful to nice people.

From Miss Bretherton by Mrs. Humphry Ward

The general impression of Drs. Hirschfeld and Weil, when I was at Olympia, was against the accuracy of Pausanias, whom they considered to have blindly set down whatever the local cicerones told him.

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

"A miracle! a miracle!" cried both the cicerones simultaneously.

From Monte-Cristo's Daughter by Edmund Flagg

The first thing that the ciceroni generally take you to see in Italy are the churches, and mine would not probably have spared me one, but I was more anxious to see the University.

From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye

Those useful ciceroni in Venice, the Signori Carlo and Sarri, seem to have had Byron's description in mind.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley

We drove to the Lateran: I had frequently visited this noble Basilica before, but on the present occasion we were to go over it in form, with the usual torments of laquais and ciceroni.

From The Diary of an Ennuyée by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

Many of these Ferráshyn are, at the same time ciceroni, or Mezowars, and exercise also, the very lucrative profession of saying prayers for the absent.

From Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

Such places are like well-frequented inns, where any body and every body is at home, and where every body influences the manners for the time being—there will be found cafés, carriages, and ciceroni.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various