cicisbea
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cicisbea (plural cicisbeas or cicisbee)
- (now chiefly historical) The female companion or lover of a (chiefly married) man, especially in eighteenth-century Italy.
- 1876, Dr Doran, ‘Mann’ and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740–1786, page 143:
- The instant he was taken ill, he was persuaded he should dye, and refused to see anybody; even my neighbour, Anna Frescobaldi, his Cicisbea of 30 years standing was forbid.
- 2009, Paula Findlen, “Anatomy of a Lesbian”, in Findlen, Roworth & Sama, editor, Italy's Eighteenth Century, Stanford University Press, page 242:
- Bonducci […] had been actively courting Walpole with such projects as his Italian translation of Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock, which he dedicated to Horace Walpole's cicisbea Elisabetta Capponi.
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Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Akin to cicisbeo.
Noun[edit]
cicisbea f (plural cicisbee)
Further reading[edit]
- cicisbea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
cicisbea
- inflection of cicisbeare:
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