英语词汇“roué”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

roué

/ˈruːeɪ

noun dated

A debauched man, especially an elderly one: he had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of London and Paris...

The story centres on Sarah Wode-Douglass, a poetry editor enticed to steaming 1970s Kuala Lumpur by a literary roué who she suspects is implicated in her mother's death.
The mobsters and grifters and roués of the demimonde didn't have a college degree; they had money and juice.
His date turned out to be an utterly delightful 24-year-old, who warmed to my charms and made me feel like a right roué.

Synonyms

libertine, rake, debauchee, dissolute man, loose-liver, degenerate, profligate;

lecher, seducer, ladies' man, womanizer, philanderer, adulterer, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, playboy;

sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary

informal ladykiller, lech, dirty old man, goat, wolf, skirt-chaser

dated gay dog, rip, blood

archaic rakehell

rare dissolute

Early 19th century: French, literally 'broken on a wheel', referring to the instrument of torture thought to be deserved by such a person.

单词	roué
释义	roué /ˈruːeɪ / noun dated A debauched man, especially an elderly one: he had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of London and Paris... The story centres on Sarah Wode-Douglass, a poetry editor enticed to steaming 1970s Kuala Lumpur by a literary roué who she suspects is implicated in her mother's death. The mobsters and grifters and roués of the demimonde didn't have a college degree; they had money and juice. His date turned out to be an utterly delightful 24-year-old, who warmed to my charms and made me feel like a right roué. Synonyms libertine, rake, debauchee, dissolute man, loose-liver, degenerate, profligate; lecher, seducer, ladies' man, womanizer, philanderer, adulterer, Don Juan, Lothario, Casanova, playboy; sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary informal ladykiller, lech, dirty old man, goat, wolf, skirt-chaser dated gay dog, rip, blood archaic rakehell rare dissolute Origin Early 19th century: French, literally 'broken on a wheel', referring to the instrument of torture thought to be deserved by such a person. Rhymes Niue
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