A profligate, whose conduct and conversation are a life-like photograph of the court “beauties” of Louis XV. (Fielding: Tom Jones.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.