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Noun
man about town (plural men about town)
- A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.
- Synonyms: boulevardier, flaneur
- Coordinate terms: bon vivant, dandy, socialite, woman about town
1886, Punch, volume 91, page 249:For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.
1902, W. Somerset Maugham, Mrs Craddock, penguin Classics, published 1992, →ISBN, page 71:To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husband's virtues.
Translations
a worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places
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