debauchee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of debauchee
First recorded in 1655–65, debauchee is from the French word débauché (past participle of débaucher ). See debauch, -ee
Example Sentences
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Yet unlike those prodigals who waste themselves and their substance alike, he was not regarded as either a spendthrift or a debauchee, but rather as a refined voluptuary.''
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week near Chillicothe, Ohio, such a fe- line debauchee squatted, yowling and jeering, on a road in front of Mrs. E. C. Hood who was driving her car.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presumably it is for the memory of Caligula the soldier, rather than Caligula the desperate debauchee, that Premier Mussolini's engineers and archaeologists are laboring at Lake Nemi.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the morning white and rosy breaks, With the gnawing Ideal, upon the debauchee, By the power of a strange decree, Within the sotted beast an Angel wakes.
From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles
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