Usually means: Lover, companion to married woman.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cicisbeo: Merriam-Webster
  2. cicisbeo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cicisbeo: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cicisbeo: Wordnik
  5. cicisbeo: Wiktionary
  6. cicisbeo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. cicisbeo: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Cicisbeo, cicisbeo: Dictionary.com
  9. cicisbeo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Cicisbeo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cicisbeo: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cicisbeo: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Cicisbeo: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cicisbeo: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. cicisbeo: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cicisbeo: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. cicisbeo: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cicisbeo: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See cicisbei as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cicisbeo)

noun:  (now chiefly historical) A man who escorts a married woman to social functions, especially in 18th-century Italy; a married woman's lover.

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