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Ciceroni

Cicerone \Ci`ce*ro"ne\, n.; pl. It. Ciceroni, E. Cicerones. [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.

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ciceroni

n. (plural of cicerone English)

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cicerone
  1. n. a guide who conducts and informs sightseers

  2. [also: ciceroni (pl)]

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Let all lovers of genuine relics look well to their money before they part with it to the ciceroni that swarm in the village of Waterloo.