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rou⋅é

[roo-ey, roo-ey]
–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)


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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