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▪ I. ‖ homme|ɔm|
[Fr., man.]
In Fr. combinations: homme d'affaires |ɔm dafɛr|, a business man, an agent, a lawyer; homme fatal, used jocularly as the masculine equivalent of a femme fatale; homme moyen |ɔm mwajɛ̃|, used in various phrases with defining adjective, esp. homme sensuel moyen, average sensual man (cf. average a. 2 b); also homme moyen sensuel.
1717M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1837) I. 410 Every pashá has his Jew, who is his homme d'affaires. 1815Scott Guy M. II. xviii. [sic = xvii.] 305 Dinmont..stood poking his large round face over the shoulder of the homme d'affaires. 1851E. Ruskin Let. 20 Dec. in M. Lutyens Effie in Venice (1965) ii. 235 It would cost him nothing farther than a letter to his homme-d'affairs at Vienna to arrange. 1882[see sensual a. 4 a]. 1894G. du Maurier Trilby III. viii. 103 The good Taffy had constituted himself Trilby's secretary and homme d'affaires. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment v. 66 Church parades, a ministration of which the average private, l'homme moyen sensuel of Matthew Arnold, had taken a long and glad farewell. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xiv. 266 Scientific eyes, economic eyes, homme moyen sensuel eyes. 1932N. & Q. 8 Oct. 269/1 They represent the opinion of the homme lettré moyen of our day rather than give us examples of brilliant criticism. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 724/4 She intrigues to interest Edward Hudson, an homme fatal, in her friend. 1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love iv. 173 Even so, long after the original reasons for the tradition have been forgotten, the homme sensuel moyen with his fair, large ears appears in the Midsummer Night's Dream. 1958Spectator 7 Feb. 166/1, I find it difficult to imagine anything more nicely calculated to convince l'homme moyen cynique that the Parker Tribunal was an elaborate white⁓washing operation fixed up by the Government. 1959Encounter XII. ii. 32 Humbert Humbert, her homme fatal. 1959Times 22 Sept. 11/3 A good family solicitor..is very much the homme d'affaires. 1961Guardian 16 Feb. 10/4 Camus finds his ‘homme moyen sensuel’ in Dr Rieux, who is not interested in the salvation of men but wishes to cure them. 1972Listener 22 June 840/3 He works much too hard at being mysterious, at playing l'homme fatal.
▪ II. homme
obs. f. ham. |