单词 | cicisbeo |
释义 | cicisbeon. 1. The name formerly given in Italy to the recognized gallant or cavalier servente of a married woman. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of attending married woman > recognized gallant of married woman cicisbeo1718 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 28 Aug. (1837) II. 75 The custom of cecisbeos [1966 ed.: Tetis beys]... I know not whether you have ever heard of those animals. 1774 Ann. Reg. 1773 Characters 66/2 The Chichisbeo is an appendix to matrimony. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. ii. 23 A mere platonic Cicisbeo, that every Lady is entitled to. 1782 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 158 English ladies are not attended by their cicisbys yet; nor would any English husband suffer it. 1786 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 339/2 Link'd arm in arm, she woes her cicisbee. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxvi. 19 The word was formerly a ‘Cicisbeo’, But that is now grown vulgar and indecent... But ‘Cavalier Servente’ is the phrase. 2. A knot of ribbon (such as might be worn by the cavalier servente) fastened to a sword-hilt, walking-stick, etc. [So in Italian.] ΚΠ a1771 T. Smollett in Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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