roue
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The complication which besets all love is, in this case, the roue Duke of Venice.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Rumania the sanctity of the orthodox patriarch of the National Church, His Holiness Miron Cristea, is not held to be impaired by his national reputation as a onetime roue.
From Time Magazine Archive
In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile.
From Time Magazine Archive
But by the early '60s he was also playing a comic-pathetic roue in Divorce, Italian Style; a quiet-spoken syndicalist in The Organizer; a trio of Italian males in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.
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No doubt the Robichaux roue was thus attracted to them.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
To be sure, the familiar conventions of romance literature are here in abundance: the aristocratic curled lip, the languid glance, sparkling eyes and a middle-aged blue-blood roué reformed by a plucky young woman.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2022
Dire moves to curtail Pyros’s activity may be unnecessary, some specialists say, because there are signs the shaggy roué has lost a step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2016
A libertine history and the look of a roué gone to seed would not in themselves preclude the support of evangelical Christians, who are, after all, keen on repentance.
From Economist ● Mar. 3, 2016
But even after the success of “A Night to Remember” Rank decided not to support his pet project, an adaptation of “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, ”Alan Sillitoe’s harsh novel about a working-class roué.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
But the old roué, who hopes to get possession of the fortune in a surer way, refuses, and their conversation turns into a quarrel.
From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge
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