ROUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roue mean? 

• ROUE (noun)
  The noun ROUE has 1 sense:

1. a dissolute man in fashionable society

  Familiarity information: ROUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dissolute man in fashionable society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blood; profligate; rake; rakehell; rip; roue

Hypernyms ("roue" is a kind of...):

debauchee; libertine; rounder (a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained)

 Context examples 

The couple were thus revealed to me clearly: both removed their cloaks, and there was 'the Varens,' shining in satin and jewels,—my gifts of course,—and there was her companion in an officer's uniform; and I knew him for a young roue of a vicomte—a brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)