Cicerones

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cicerone \Ci`ce*ro"ne\, n.; pl. It. {Ciceroni}, E. {Cicerones}.
     [It., fr. L. Cicero, the Roman orator. So called from the
     ordinary talkativeness of such a guide.]
     One who shows strangers the curiosities of a place; a guide.
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           Every glib and loquacious hireling who shows strangers
           about their picture galleries, palaces, and ruins, is
           termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero.
                                                    --Trench.
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