The cicisbeo was better tolerated if he was known to be homosexual.

"It wouldn't be if I was a cicisbeo" Kenton said firmly.

Not one cicisbeo left to you?'

Cicisbeo] licensed lover of a married Italian lady.

A male figure comparable to the courtesan was the Italian cicisbeo, the French chevalier servant, the Spanish cortejo or estrecho.

Then he gets out to meet his lady (aristocratic ladies of this period of time had both a husband and a gallant, called a cicisbeo, to pass the day with).

In spite of Zyeme's disapproving glances, her hand- some cicisbeo Bond was wiping tears of laughter from his eyes, albeit with great care for his makeup.

In 18th- and 19th-century Venice, the terms cicisbeo and cavalier servente were used to describe a man who was the professed gallant and lover of a married woman.

Typically, husbands tolerated or even welcomed the arrangement: Lord Byron, for example, was cicisbeo to Contessa Teresa Gamba Guiccioli.

He derides the Roman Catholic faith, dueling, petty and proud nobility, such domestic arrangements as the cicisbeo, and many other French and Italian customs.

But thanks for the warning: it seems the innocent young English naval officer is in great danger from both the cicisbeo and the husband, and he has to beware the mother if the girl is a spinster."

Until Lord Charlbury's emergence from a sickroom, Sophy's most frequent cavalier (or, as Mr. Rivenhall preferred savagely to dub him, her cicisbeo) had been Sir Vincent Talgarth.

Da Ponte lived most of his 20's in Venice as a cicisbeo, or attendant on married women, supporting himself as a teacher and tutor, or, when lucky, on winnings from the gambling table.

"No, as far as I can make out, a cicisbeo is a lady's recognized follower: the husband knows all about it and agrees: the cicisbeo acts as a combined escort and chaperone."

He was moreover the cicisbeo, or rather the complaisant chevalier of the Countess of Boufflers, a great friend also to D'Alembert, and the Chevalier de Lorenzi was the most passive instrument in her hands.

Friedrich Ratzel in The History of Mankind reported in 1896 that In Hawaii a kind of incipient polyandry arose by the addition to the marriage establishment of a cicisbeo, known as Punalua.

"Oh for the delights of Lisbon ... I'd welcome an evening on shore, even if I had to spend it listening to those miserable fado singers and watching an elegant lady drive her cicisbeo to distraction by staring at a handsome fellow like me!"