roue
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
Yet in his 20s he took time out from his apprentice novel-writing to complete a full biography of the 17th-century roué and poet, the Earl of Rochester.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
Had she allowed herself to be drawn into a promised alliance with that titled roué?
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
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