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单词 man about town
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man (also woman, etc.) about town
P5. colloquial. man (also woman, etc.) about town and variants: a person who mingles in the pursuits or society of the town; spec. one who is frequently seen at fashionable social occasions; a member of fashionable society; a socialite. Now frequently hyphenated. Cf. girl about town at girl n. Phrases 2a, about prep.1 7b.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > male
gallant1388
wamfler15..
rutter1506
younkera1522
fine gentleman1575
cavalier1589
whisker1595
jinglespur1604
bravery1616
brisk1621
chevalier1630
man about town1647
man of mode1676
man of distinction1699
sprag1707
sparky1756
blood1763
swell1786
Corinthian1819
galliard1828
mondain1833
toff1851
flâneur1854
Johnny1883
silver-tail1898
knut1911
lounge lizard1918
old buster1919
Hooray Henry1959
society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant
man (also woman, etc.) about town1734
racketer1753
social butterfly1837
socialite1909
socializer1941
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 196 I was a youth about the town when he undertook that expedition.
1678 T. D'Urfey Fool turn'd Critick iv. ii. 34 Were I not favourable, many a poor Fellow about Town would be undone.
1734 in 15th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. vi. 146 in Parl. Papers 1897 (C. 8551) LI. 1 Though being what is called an idle man about Town, I generally read all that is writ on both sides.
1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 6 Sept. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2892 There are now two sorts of young fellows about Town, who call themselves Bucks and Bloods.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxvi. 317 He was quite the man-about-town of the conversation.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) x. 83 A perfect and celebrated ‘blood’, or dandy about town.
1889 W. Roberts Hist. Eng. Bookselling 121 Wits, men-about-town, and fashionable notabilities.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Apr. 2/1 The young raff about town; his respectable M.P. father.
1979 ‘S. Kemp’ Goodbye, Pussy xii. 160 Zoë had been an ‘actress’. Actress, model, woman-about-town.
1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto vi. 107 My father was a man-about-town, very well known in Soweto in the fifties.
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