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cicerone
/ˈsɪsɚˌoʊn/
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What does cicerone mean?
noun
- A guide who accompanies visitors and sightseers to museums, galleries, etc., and explains matters of archaeological, antiquarian, historic or artistic interest.
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verb
- (archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɪsɚˌoʊn/
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On a second-floor landing we met a man in a tweed suit, to whom our cicerone presented us.
A few paces from this monument the cicerone will point out with his finger the spot where his rivals expired.
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In the relief of his mind, he opened his heart, and gave up as much of Mantua as a Cicerone could.
He was a grotesque-looking personage, and might have passed for a gentleman of the old school, reduced by adversity to playing cicerone to foreigners of distinction.
My cicerone must be excused, for he was a Boston man, born and bred, and I ought never to have put him to the humiliation of confessing his natural ignorance.