roue
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The complication which besets all love is, in this case, the roue Duke of Venice.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Paul Lukas, the only actor in Hollywood who can speak with a foreign accent without seeming to be a roue, handles the situation with delicacy.
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Like an aging roue looking back on halcyon days, the House Un-American Activities Committee has tried to sanitize its image.
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No doubt the Robichaux roue was thus attracted to them.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
None of this has prepared him to play a pre-revolutionary roué, he said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2016
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
In 1985, Mr. Jourdan toured nationally in a popular but critically drubbed stage version of “Gigi,” this time as the aging roué portrayed onscreen by Chevalier.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2015
I should say, 'My princess, the regent must have been warned by his police, for he did not leave as we expected, and we saw none but his roué companions.'
From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas père
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