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Italian lover: see one repeatedly be so frisky
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cicisbeo
Word definitions for cicisbeo in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cicisbeo \Ci`cis*be"o\, n.; pl. It. Cicisbei . [It.] A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women. A knot of silk or ribbon attached to a fan, walking stick, etc. [Obs.]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In 18th- and 19th-century Italy , the cicisbeo (; plural : cicisbei ), or cavalier servente '' ( chevalier servant '' in French), was the professed gallant and lover of a married woman, who attended her at public entertainments, to church and other occasions ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1718, from Italian cicisbeo "the recognized gallant of a married woman." Perhaps from older French chiche beau "little man," or from Venetian dialect cici "the chattering of women" (imitative, attested in 18c.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context 18th century English) A knightly servant of a high-born lady. 2 A married woman's lover; a kept man.
Usage examples of cicisbeo.
Was he thinking of hiring him to play attendant, like a cicisbeo of years gone by?
Before long he will be dust, and then it will be the turn of Don Gastone, and frati will give place to cicisbei.
Would-be cicisbeos, throwing out lures, had made haste to seek easier game after encountering one look from my Lord Spenborough.
As for Hero, the Viscount was not an ill-natured or an unreasonable young man, and he meant to make no objection to her forming her own court, with its attendant cicisbeos, and even (if discreetly conducted) its amorous intrigues.