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- Dictionarycicisbeo/ˌtʃɪtʃɪzˈbeɪəʊ/
noun
- 1. a married woman's male companion or lover.
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In 18th- and 19th-century Italy, the cicisbeo or cavalier servente was the man who was the professed gallant or lover of a woman married to someone else. With the knowledge and consent of the husband, the cicisbeo attended his mistress at public entertainments, to church and other occasions, and had privileged access to this woman. The arrangement is comparable to the Spanish cortejo or estrecho a... Wikipedia