lecher
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of lecher
1125–75; Middle English lech ( o ) ur < Anglo-French; Old French lecheor glutton, libertine, equivalent to lech ( ier ) to lick (< Germanic; compare Old High German leccōn to lick ) + -eor -or 2
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The inherent pleasure of the pastime is captured in the French term lecher les vitrines, literally, “licking the window glass.”
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The year's finest film, possibly a great one: Michelangelo Antonioni looks long and carefully, as if through a microscope, at the life of a lecher, at "the sickness unto death, which is despair."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I resent the fact that because I'm standing up for my privacy people are drawing an inference that I'm some kind of lecher who has had numerous affairs," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
The opera bristles with an immense variety of forms: a sonata represents the elderly lecher, a rondo suggests his son, ragtime gives way to an English waltz.
From Time Magazine Archive
Solomon was one of the most honorable men of his age, but were he alive to-day he would be branded as a shameless lecher, a contumacious criminal.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by William Cowper Brann
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