hommen.
/ɒm/ In French compounds.
Compounds
homme d'affaires n. /ɔm dafɛr/ a business man, an agent, a lawyer.
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society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun]
lawyer1377
man of lawc1405
practiserc1450
jurist1481
lawman1535
practitioner1576
man of the long coat1579
(a gentleman) toward the law1592
gownsman1627
law-driver1640
long-robe man1654
green bag1699
flycatcher1708
homme d'affaires1717
jet1728
law-solicitor1738
shark1806
blue bag1817
law-person1819
law-gentleman1837
maître1883
lip1929
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun]
man of business1640
homme d'affaires1717
businessman1803
businessperson1834
operator1838
towkay1854
grey suit1969
pinstripe1970
suit1977
pin-striper1979
1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 17 May (1965) I. 355 Every Bashá has his Jew who is his Homme d'Affaires.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 305 Dinmont..stood poking his large round face over the shoulder of the homme d'affaires.
1851 E. Ruskin Let. 20 Dec. in Effie in Venice (1965) ii. 235 It would cost him nothing farther than a letter to his homme-d'affairs at Vienna to arrange.
1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby III. viii. 103 The good Taffy had constituted himself Trilby's secretary and homme d'affaires.
1959 Times 22 Sept. 11/3 A good family solicitor..is very much the homme d'affaires.
homme fatal n. used jocularly as the masculine equivalent of a femme fatale.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > seduction > seducer
seducera1616
woman-killer1654
cousin1694
betrayer1766
ladykiller1769
Lovelace1773
Don Juan1847
wolf1847
Casanova1928
homme fatal1935
1935 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 724/4 She intrigues to interest Edward Hudson, an homme fatal, in her friend.
1959 Encounter 12 ii. 32 Humbert Humbert, her homme fatal.
1972 Listener 22 June 840/3 He works much too hard at being mysterious, at playing l'homme fatal.
homme moyen n. /ɔm mwajɛ̃/ used in various phrases with defining adjective, esp. homme sensuel moyen (also homme moyen sensuel): average sensual man (cf. average adj. 2b).
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the world > people > person > [noun] > average
homme sensuel moyen1882
mass man1928
Joe Citizen1932
John Q.1937
the average bear1960
1882 M. Arnold Irish Ess. 230 But this whole drama..may be best described as the theatre of the homme sensuel moyen, the average sensual man,..whose city is Paris, and whose ideal is the free, gay, pleasurable life of Paris.
1922 C. 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.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xiv. 266 Scientific eyes, economic eyes, homme moyen sensuel eyes.
1932 Notes & Queries 8 Oct. 269/1 They represent the opinion of the homme lettré moyen of our day rather than give us examples of brilliant criticism.
1936 C. 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.
1958 Spectator 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.
1961 Guardian 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.
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