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- noun Plural form of
cicisbeo .
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Examples
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I have seen nothing but cards and dull pairs of cicisbeos.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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Editors forget their proofs; Baboos forget Moses; mothers forget their cicisbeos.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series George Robert Aberigh-Mackay 1864
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Were I in Italy, disburse but a few sequins and battling legions would move at my bidding: but here we have neither cicisbeos, carnivals, confessors, bravoes nor sanctuaries.
Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777
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The beauties were the Duke of Richmond's two daughters (272) and their mother, still handsomer than they: the duke (273) sat by his wife all night, kissing her hand: how this must sound in the ears of Florentine cicisbeos, cock or hen!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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I have seen nothing but cards and dull pairs of cicisbeos.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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