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  • 1roué — noun Etymology: French, literally, broken on the wheel, from past participle of rouer to break on the wheel, from Medieval Latin rotare, from Latin, to rotate; from the feeling that such a person deserves this punishment Date: 1800 a man devoted… …

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  • 2roué — rou|é [ˈru:eı US ru:ˈeı] n literary [Date: 1800 1900; : French; Origin: , past participle of rouer to punish someone by tying them to a wheel and beating them , from Latin rotare; ROTATE] a man who believes that pleasure is the most important… …

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  • 3debauchee — n. Libertine, rake, voluptuary, profligate, man of pleasure, roué …

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  • 4rake — I. n. Libertine, debauchee, man of pleasure roué. II. v. a. 1. Gather, collect, draw together, heap together, gather together, scrape together, rake up, heap up, scrape over. 2. Scour, search closely, ransack. 3. Enfilade. III. v. n. 1. Search,… …

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  • 5libertine — I. n. Rake, debauchee, profligate, roué, dissolute man, man of pleasure. II. a. Licentious, dissolute, depraved, corrupt …

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  • 6profligate — I. a. Depraved, corrupt, immoral, vitiated, dissolute, corrupted, very wicked, graceless, very vicious, shameless, abandoned, lost to virtue. II. n. Debauchee, rake, libertine, man of pleasure, reprobate, roué …

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  • 7voluptuary — n 1. hedonist, sybarite, sensualist; pleasure seeker, Fr. bon vivant, Inf. high liver, Sl. swinger, Sl. swinging single, playgirl, Sl. party girl, playboy, ladies man, gallant; debauchee, roue, rake, profligate, libertine, Don Juan, Casanova;… …

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  • 8Ferris wheel — For other uses, see Ferris wheel (disambiguation). A Ferris wheel (also known as an observation wheel or big wheel) is a nonbuilding structure consisting of a rotating upright wheel with passenger cars (sometimes referred to as gondolas or… …

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  • 9literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 101993 dans les parcs de loisirs — Années : 1990 1991 1992  1993  1994 1995 1996 Décennies : 1960 1970 1980  1990  2000 2010 2020 Siècles : XIXe siècle  XXe siècl …

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