cicisbea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The female companion or lover of a (chiefly married) man, especially in eighteenth-century Italy.

Word forms

cicisbea cicisbeas cicisbee

Etymology

From Italian cicisbea.

Related words

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