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- noun Plural form of
Don Juan .
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Examples
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And then, as he rode back, he thought also of his other love, not with many of those pleasant thoughts which Lotharios and Don Juans may be presumed to enjoy when they contemplate their successes.
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Many are Don Juans of one flavor or another, some aggressive, some merely compulsive, some rather childlike.
Why is it Always About You? Sandy Hotchkiss 2002
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Many are Don Juans of one flavor or another, some aggressive, some merely compulsive, some rather childlike.
Why is it Always About You? Sandy Hotchkiss 2002
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Yogis, Swamis, Sris, and Don Juans claim to be able to lie on beds of nails, levitate, and fly through the air; but the new breed of evangelists can do something far more impressive: They can bounce their images off Comstar I communication satellites and beam themselves down into every city and town in North America.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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Yogis, Swamis, Sris, and Don Juans claim to be able to lie on beds of nails, levitate, and fly through the air; but the new breed of evangelists can do something far more impressive: They can bounce their images off Comstar I communication satellites and beam themselves down into every city and town in North America.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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Yogis, Swamis, Sris, and Don Juans claim to be able to lie on beds of nails, levitate, and fly through the air; but the new breed of evangelists can do something far more impressive: They can bounce their images off Comstar I communication satellites and beam themselves down into every city and town in North America.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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Yogis, Swamis, Sris, and Don Juans claim to be able to lie on beds of nails, levitate, and fly through the air; but the new breed of evangelists can do something far more impressive: They can bounce their images off Comstar I communication satellites and beam themselves down into every city and town in North America.
Why Nothing Works Marvin Harris 1981
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To sum the matter up briefly (whispering low our confessions, if you like), what man is there among us -- I am not talking of Don Juans, who catalogue their amours, nor of Lovelaces, but of ordinary men of say thirty years old -- who can remember how many mistresses he has had?
French and Oriental Love in a Harem Mario Uchard
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Day-dreams in which we figure as heroes and Napoleons and Don Juans, in which we triumph sensationally over the stupidities and arrogances of our enemies -- we think them out detail by detail.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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He had often listened to the recitals of their exploits by the Merrytown Don Juans, but this good-looking, sophisticated lad evidently had a technique and breadth of experience quite unknown to
The Plastic Age Percy Marks 1923
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