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Lothario
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synonyms: libertine, voluptuary, roue, philanderer ???
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Definition:a man whose primary goal is seducing women, a Don Juan. It is an eponym, taken from a character in Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play Fair Penitent.
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They were five women and one man, whom we will call Lothario as he was then married to one cast member and dating another, which added a certain frisson to their performances.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.217 (2004)
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Adam began walking in the direction of Little Yard, where, feeling once more thwarted, he would no doubt be unable to come up with any comment tender enough and cool enough and Lothario enough to ... to... to...
Tom Wolfe. I am Charlotte Simmons, p.572 (2004)
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"You're what I call a gay Lothario," said Lenehan. "And the proper kind of a Lothario, too!"
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