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How to use cicisbeo in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word cicisbeo? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The cicisbeo was often chosen by common agreement of husband and wife when drawing up the marriage contract.
The roommate asked me today if the cicisbeo had ever hit on me.
At last he was a full-fledged cavaliere servente, a cicisbeo, an official gigolo whose prior rights, by old Italian custom, are fully recognized by the husband.
Da Ponte lived most of his 20's in Venice as a cicisbeo, or attendant on married women, supporting himself as a teacher and tutor, or, when lucky, on winnings from the gambling table.
Of course a cicisbeo is a normal enough figure in Alexandrian life, but things are going to become socially very boring for you if you go out with those two so much.
Examples from Classical Literature
Heretofore, he had shunned everything that could secure for him the reputation of a cicisbeo.
Mme Boursier, knowing the poverty of her paramour, had paid him as her cicisbeo, squandering upon him her children's patrimony.
It must be owned the Lady Louise had some excuse for a measure that seemed to have amazed and horrified her cicisbeo.
The restricted intellectual relationship between husband and wife is explained partly by the fact that the cicisbeo still exists.
The cicisbeo is a bony cartilaginous gentleman, fixed perpendicularly on his saddle like a telegraph-pole.
Gozzi means that he had assumed the rle of cicisbeo to Mme. Ricci.
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