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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

;

pl. It.

Ciceroni

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, E.

Cicerones

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[It., fr. L.

Cicero

, the Roman orator. So called from the ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.]

One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.

Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a

cicerone

, or a Cicero.

Trench.

Noun.

A guide; one who explains curiosities.

See also: cicerone and Cicerone

cicérone m ‎(plural cicérones)