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man about town

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man about town
a fashionable man who leads a sophisticated life. He prefers a nightclub to a quiet night at home—a man about town. Bob's too much of a man about town to go to a football game.
See also: man, town
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Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Before he went to India he was too young to partake of the delightful pleasures of a man about town, and plunged into them on his return with considerable assiduity.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
It is a galling thing,' said Ralph, after a short term of silence, during which he had eyed the sufferer keenly, 'to think that the man about town, the rake, the ROUE, the rook of twenty seasons should be brought to this pass by a mere boy
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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