cicisbeaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cicisbea (複数形 cicisbeas または cicisbee)

1. (now chiefly historical) The female companion or lover of a (chiefly married) man, especially in eighteenth-century Italy.
   • 1876, Dr Doran, ‘Mann’ and Manners at the Court of Florence, 1740–1786, p. 143:

     The instant he was taken ill, he was persuaded he should dye, and refused to see anybody; even my neighbour, Anna Frescobaldi, his Cicisbea of 30 years standing was forbid.

   • 2009, Paula Findlen, ‘Anatomy of a Lesbian’, in Findlen, Roworth & Sama (eds.), Italy's Eighteenth Century, Stanford University Press, p. 242:

     Bonducci […] had been actively courting Walpole with such projects as his Italian translation of Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock, which he dedicated to Horace Walpole's cicisbea Elisabetta Capponi.

関連する語

• cicisbeo