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

On the entrance of so illustrious a person as Cicero on the historical scene, it is fit that we should act the part of cicerone, for the purpose of introducing him.

From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket

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

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

He neither took any rest himself nor allowed others to do so; he exhausted all his ciceroni, always repeating, "I must see it."

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12 by John Rudd

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

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

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

From Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. Hare

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 Augustus J. C. Hare