Man-about-town

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of man about town (“a worldly, social man”). alt-of, alternative

    "no date, David McDuff, translator, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 2003 Penguin Classics edition, →ISBN, page 61, The man-about-town began to follow her, but along the other side of the boulevard, keeping his eyes trained on her."

  2. 2
    a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure wordnet

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"no date, David McDuff, translator, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, 2003 Penguin Classics edition, →ISBN, page 61, The man-about-town began to follow her, but along the other side of the boulevard, keeping his eyes trained on her."

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