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rou⋅é

  [roo-ey, roo-ey]
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–noun
a dissolute and licentious man; rake.
Origin:
1790–1800; < F, n. use of ptp. of rouer to break on the wheel (deriv. of roue wheel ≪ L rota); name first applied to the profligate companions of the Duc d'Orléans (c1720)

Synonyms:
profligate, libertine, lecher, cad, bounder, rakehell.
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rou·é   (rōō-ā')   
n.  A lecherous dissipated man.

[French, from past participle of rouer, to break on a wheel (from the feeling that such a person deserves that punishment), from Old French, from Latin rotāre, to rotate; see rotate.]
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Word Origin & History

roué 
1800, from Fr. roué "dissipated man, rake," originally pp. of O.Fr. rouer "to break on the wheel," from L. rotare "roll;" said to have been first applied in Fr. c.1720 to dissolute friends of the Duke of Orleans (regent of France 1715-23), to suggest the punishment they deserved.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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