as in libertine
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Why not the antics of sly Elizabethan housewives playing tricks on a fatuous drunken roue?
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Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
In the film, Jennifer Jones played the heroine, in her maid’s cap and apron, and French actor Charles Boyer was Adam Belinski, the refugee Czech intellectual roue, on the Hollywood assumption that one European accent is as good as another.
—New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020
In the film, Jennifer Jones played the heroine, in her maid’s cap and apron, and French actor Charles Boyer was Adam Belinski, the refugee Czech intellectual roue, on the Hollywood assumption that one European accent is as good as another.
—New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
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“Roué.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rou%C3%A9. Accessed 19 Aug. 2024.
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