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Cicisbeo   Listen
noun
Cicisbeo  n.  (pl. It. cicisbei)  
1.
A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.
2.
A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc. (Obs.)





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"Cicisbeo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Protestant free-thinker, who, with his divorcee wife, puts up grass altars in their garden with inscriptions recording the happiness of their queer union; an ill-natured Mme. du Marset and her old cicisbeo, M. de Fierville, who suggest, in the dismallest way, the weakest wine of Marmontel gone stale and filtered through the dullest, though not the dirtiest, ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury


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