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• ladies' man

Noun

lady's man ‎(plural lady's men or ladies' men)

1. (idiomatic) A man who attracts women and enjoys their company.
   • 1850, Herman Melville, White Jacket, ch. 42:

     This promenading was chiefly patronised by the marines, and particularly by Colbrook, a remarkably handsome and very gentlemanly corporal among them. He was a complete lady's man; with fine black eyes, bright red cheeks, glossy jet whiskers, and a refined organisation of the whole man.

2. (idiomatic) A womanizer.
   • 2008, "Klimt And The Golden Art Of Vienna," cbsnews.com, 9 Mar. (retrieved 4 Sep. 2008):

     He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies' man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns . . . or nothing at all.

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• See also Wikisaurus:libertine

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