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    What word for "a man devoted to a life of pleasure", " a rake", suggests that such people in the opinion of the jealous common man deserves to be broken on the wheel?

    Question #77979. Asked by Flem-ish. (Mar 28 07 7:33 PM)


    tragic_flawed

    		profligate

    Mar 28 07, 7:53 PM
    lanfranco

    		My guess is that you mean "roue" (there should be an acute accent on the "e").


    http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/roue

    Mar 28 07, 7:54 PM
    Flem-ish

    		The roué is the right guess. Silver Wheel Award?

    Mar 28 07, 8:22 PM
    queproblema

    		"You are sixteen going on seventeen,
    Fellows will fall in line.
    Eager young lads and roues and cads
    Offer you food and wine."

    http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/sixteen.htm

    Another site changed "roues" to "rogues," only one letter different but not related.

    Mar 28 07, 10:20 PM
    Flem-ish

    		Occasionally the term "vieux roué" is also applied to tricky veteran politicians as in this commentary on Jacques Chirac.
    http://www.clicanoo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=135
    Forums thématiques | Journal de l'Ile de la Réunion, le quotidien d'information francophone dans l'océan Indien | Clicanoo.com

    Mar 29 07, 12:41 AM

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