Synonyms for man-about-town
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of man-about-town
- noun sophisticated man
- He was quite the man-about-town of the conversation, while the easy-shaver was the child.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- He was a man-about-town, living, to all appearance, by his wits.
- Extract from : « A Difficult Problem » by Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs)
- The man-about-town duly made his appearance to the very minute.
- Extract from : « The Opal Serpent » by Fergus Hume
- He had an admirable appetite for pleasure; a man-about-town's life suited him.
- Extract from : « Villa Rubein and Other Stories » by John Galsworthy
- He was always a man-about-town, but he and Brian were inseparable.
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Mysterious Light » by Mary E. Hanshew
- He was a man-about-town, living, to all appearances, by his wits.
- Extract from : « Room Number 3 » by Anna Katharine Green
- And even the man-about-town stands aghast at the ultra-modern crazes.
- Extract from : « The Stretton Street Affair » by William Le Queux
- He scorned Joseph; and yet his desire, as a man-about-town, to keep Joseph's esteem, was in no way diminished!
- Extract from : « The Regent » by E. Arnold Bennett
- Bimba is a popular character in Cuba, and in some respects represents a type of the Creole 'pollo,' or man-about-town.
- Extract from : « The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba » by Walter Goodman
- George, a man-about-town, would have stared at being called provincial, but a man cannot stare away his nature.
- Extract from : « The Country House » by John Galsworthy
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- a thing about something
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- woman of the town
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