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cicisbee

cicisbee is the alternative form of cicisbeo.

Meaning of cicisbeo

Noun

cicisbeo (plural cicisbeos or cicisbei)

  1. (historical) A man who escorts a married woman to social functions, especially in 18th-century Italy; a married woman's lover.
    • My old Cicisbee says it would do: & he is (or was poor fellow!) a famous Scholar.1784 December 7, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana

Forms of cicisbee

pluralcicisbees

Questions about cicisbee

What is cicisbee the alternative form of?
Cicisbee is the alternative form of cicisbeo.

Words near cicisbee in the dictionary

  1. cicindeline
  2. cicindelines
  3. cicinni
  4. cicinnus
  5. cicisbea
  6. cicisbee
  7. cicisbees
  8. cicisbei
  9. cicisbeism
  10. cicisbeo
  11. cicisbeos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cicisbee (page history and authors); cicisbeo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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