roué

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I should shut my doors against her but for the sake of her nephew _le roué_, who is really a pretty young man.

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  1. French, from past participle of rouer, to break on a wheel (from the feeling that such a person deserves that punishment), from Old French, from Latin rotāre, to rotate; see rotate.

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  1. from French roué, an epithet applied by the Duke of Orleans, regent of France from 1715 to 1723, to his companions in dissipation, and usually explained as ‘broken on a wheel,’ implying that his companions deserved to be broken on the wheel; but it is prob. to be taken in the other fig. use, ‘jaded,’ ‘worn out’; past participle of rouer, break on the wheel, run over, beat, bang (roué, roué de fatigue, jaded), from roue, a wheel, from Latin rota, a wheel: see rota.
 

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