[f. CICISBEO + -ISM. Cf. F. sigisbéisme.] The practice of attending a married woman as cicisbeo.
1743. H. Walpole, Lett. to H. Mann (1833), I. 241. Your history of Cicisbeism is more entertaining.
1802. Eustace, Classic. Tour (1817), IV. 307.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., III. 19. The ridicule of the French displaced cicisbeism.
