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‖ roué|ˈruːeɪ|
[F. roué, pa. pple. of rouer to break on the wheel. The name was first given to the profligate companions of the Duke of Orleans (c 1720), to suggest that they deserved this punishment.]
One who is given to, or leads, a life of pleasure and sensuality; a debauchee, a rake.
1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. III. 60 Madame Duplin thought..it was much to be lamented, that so fine a young lady should fling herself away on a roué. 1831Society I. 48 He associated with none but black-legs and roués of the worst description. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xv, I knew him for a young roué of a vicomte—a brainless and vicious youth. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets v. 137 Anacreon died at the ripe age of eighty-five.., a hoary-headed roué.
attrib.1837J. F. Cooper Europe II. 79 There is a certain roué atmosphere about them.
Hence rouéism, rakish life.
1847Mrs. Gore Castles in Air xxxi. (1857) 303 In spite of his vocation of rouéism. |