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A Lothario (q.v.); a libertine.
“I immediately quitted the precincts of the castle, and posted myself on the high road, where the gay deceiver was sure to be intercepted on his return.”—Le Sage: Adventures of Gil Blas (Smollett’s translation). (1749.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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