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CICERONE
cicerone
(noun) a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cicerone (plural cicerones or ciceroni)
A guide who shows people around tourist sights.
Verb
cicerone (third-person singular simple present cicerones, present participle ciceroning, simple past and past participle ciceroned)
(ambitransitive, archaic) To show (somebody) the sights, acting as a tourist guide.
Anagrams
• croceine
Source: Wiktionary
Ci`ce*ro"ne, n.; pl. It. Ciceroni, E. Cicerones. Etym: [It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; “bright silver candlesticks”; “a burnished brass knocker”; “she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves”; “rows of shining glasses”; “shiny black patents”
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