cicisbeo

• One of the most interesting volumes of this kind was written by a Mrs. Piozzi, the English wife of an Italian, who had unusual opportunities for a close observation of social conditions; several of the following paragraphs are based upon her experiences The most striking thing in the social life of this time is the domestic arrangement whereby every married woman was supposed to have at her beck and call, in addition to her husband, another cavalier, who was known as a cicisbeo and was the natural successor of the Florentine cavaliere before mentioned. —  Women of the Romance Countries
• The cicisbeo is a bony cartilaginous gentleman, fixt perpendicularly on his saddle like a telegraph-pole. —  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2
• These girls as a rule, were married early to men of their own standing, and though the cicisbeo was not unknown after marriage he was not an authorised member of the household. —  The Valley of Decision
• She was the Marchioness G----, whose 'cicisbeo' was —  The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
• Luckily, my cicisbeo - was a Catholic, and screamed to so many Saints, that some of them at the nearest alehouse came and saved us, or I should have had no more gout, or what I dreaded I should; for I concluded we should be carried ashore somewhere, and be forced to wade through the mud up to my middle. —  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4

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