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Meanings of man-about-town in inglês

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A man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure.

        playboy
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        Examples for "playboy"
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        My playboy days are over, but I still needed to be sexy.
        Ebony
        2
        The travails of the storied playboy prime minister never fail to captivate.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Her father, a playboy type, deserted them and never writes to Kate.
        The new yorker
        4
        Trump, meanwhile, has gone from playboy to TV star to US president.
        The Guardian
        5
        He was a professor, but he was kind of a playboy, too.
        After dark
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        The list gained attention because of the Corinthian Colleges collapse last year.
        Reuters
        2
        UCD are two points ahead of Corinthian with a game in hand.
        The Irish Times
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        Tomorrow they will aim to take three points from Corinthian at Whitechurch.
        The Irish Times
        4
        On one side the carving is distinctly Corinthian; on another altogether lacking.
        Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1
        5
        The modillions of a Corinthian cornice are but elaborated and embellished dentils.
        The Beautiful Necessity / Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architec...
        Usage of man-about-town in inglês
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        I had a certain man-about-town in my pocket, my dear.
        In a gilded cage
        2
        But years before that, he had been the greatest man-about-town in Dawson City and Nome.
        The new yorker
        3
        By 1965, he was a dashing, wealthy, connected man-about-town who was very popular with women.
        News.com.au
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        The man-about-town shrugged his well-tailored shoulders.
        Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
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        At the time, Charles was 29 years old, a dashing man-about-town whose romantic conquests were well known in certain, aristo circles.
        News.com.au
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        You'll meet her, Bowman felt like saying but realized how man-about-town it sounded, and also he did not know if it would happen.
        All That Is
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        A typical young-man-about-town, an indolent pleasure-lover, always dressed to perfection and flush with money-suchwas Victor Nevill in the opinion of the world.
        In Friendship's Guise
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        The arrangement strikes us as admirable, and seems to us a manifestation of a spirit of sportsmanship that many a man-about-town might emulate.
        The new yorker
        9
        My first boss, an infamous man-about-town, kept a three-ring binder of unpublished phone numbers unlocking some of the toughest tables in the city.
        Wired
        Translations for man-about-town
        português
        playboy
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        Man-about-town through the time