A dissolute man in fashionable society.
1 Ligniere, a distinguished-looking roue , with disordered shirt-front arm-in-arm with christian de Neuvillette.
2 A simpleton of twenty is better than a roue of twenty.
3 As a man of pleasure, for instance, what more active roue than he?
4 An accomplished roue always affects to moralise; it is a part of his character.
5 Nat Hicks, tailor and roue , came to sit beside him.
6 The next time that he saw her, she was with a famous roue in Philadelphia.
7 The face that might have been handsome was the reflection of a roue , dashing, devilish.
8 The Duke of Modena was with me, and you know what an enterprising roue he is.
9 The old man was a notorious roue , of most unsavory reputation as a destroyer of innocence.
10 If he is temperate at twenty years old, he will be a cowardly roue at fifty.
11 Why have they abolished the roue chez nous?
12 It appears that he is a dangerous roue who has made advances to a number of women.
13 Philippe when they left the house revealed his poverty to Giroudeau, but the old roue reassured him.
14 One day, on the Boulevard des Italiens, Serge met an old friend, the Baron de Prefont, a hardened ' roue ' .
15 With that he sneered and asked who had sat for the portrait of the Duke of Beaurivage, Geraldine's wornout roue .
16 He can be as much of a roue as he chooses, so long as he respects our wives and daughters.
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