roue
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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.
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
In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The complication which besets all love is, in this case, the roue Duke of Venice.
From Time Magazine Archive
No doubt the Robichaux roue was thus attracted to them.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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
He's 50 now, and happily married with his first child, so his days as the ruby-toothed, actress-squiring, restaurant-owning roué are behind him.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2010
For around San Francisco, as in it, he is known as roué and reveller, a debauchee in every speciality of debauch, and a silly fellow to boot.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
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