
n., pl., -os, also -os.
A man who seduces women.
[After Lothario, a character in The Fair Penitent, a play by Nicholas Rowe.]
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[After Lothario, a character in The Fair Penitent, a play by Nicholas Rowe.]
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Lothario is a male first name which came to connote an unscrupulous seducer of women in The Impertinent Curiosity, a story-within-the-story in Don Quixote.
Lothario is also a character in the play The Fair Penitent (1703), by Nicholas Rowe. In the play, Lothario seduces and betrays Calista.
Through the Rowe play, the eponym a lothario, came to mean a handsome, seductive ladies' man. It was often prefixed with "gay", from Rowe's line, "haughty gallant gay Lothario". A "gay lothario" was an amoral seducer.[1]
An allusion is made to Lothario in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! when referring to Charles Bon, the proclaimed ladies-man and woman-seducer who is about to marry a woman while already being married.[2]
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