Lexicographical Neighbors of Sigisbeo
Literary usage of Sigisbeo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797 by William Carew Hazlitt (1900)
"The sigisbeo was thus something between a major- domo and a ... Among the most
distinguished houses the selection of the sigisbeo was a task of difficulty, ..."
2. Goldoni and the Venice of His Time by Joseph Spencer Kennard (1920)
"Just one of his characters, Vanesio in the sigisbeo Sconsolato, deserves mention
as a first sketch of the Cavalier servente, a mere daub that, however, ..."
3. The Physiology of Marriage by Honoré de Balzac (1904)
"... as soon as her husband is convinced that she loves the ' sigisbeo,' and detests
the ' patito," to compromise herself with the • patito' (having first ..."
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