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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Lothario
American Heritage Dictionary:
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n., pl., -os, also -os.
A man who seduces women.
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- A man amorously attentive to women: amorist, Casanova, Don Juan, gallant, lady's man, Romeo. See sex/asexual.
- A man who seduces women: debaucher, Don Juan, seducer. See sex/asexual.
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- Love and Romance - Lothario: seducer and deceiver of women
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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]
Notes
- ^ Bamber Gasgoine, ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITAIN.
- ^ Urgo, Joseph R.. "Reading Faulkner: glossary and commentary. Absalom, Absalom!". University Press of Mississippi. http://books.google.com/books?id=5xLNJzi5ZkYC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&dq=lothario+absalom+absalom&source=bl&ots=HqpTDA5XjS&sig=YllJUPwz8XutY_WGZRa8f6okqss&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Iz8mT6rBAZGDtgeK2dGVCA&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=lothario&f=false.
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