Etymology

cicisbea

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Today it means: The female companion or lover of a (chiefly married) man, especially in eighteenth-century Italy. Full definition →

Italian cicisbea
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  1. Italian · derived fromcicisbea
  2. English todaycicisbea

From Italian cicisbea.

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