| 词汇 | roué |
| 词源 | roué. Roué was first used to describe the debauched rakes in the duc d’Orléan’s crowd toward the beginning of the 18th century. These roués, who weren’t really old at all (even though the old cliché makes all roués old), took their name from the French word rouer, meaning to torture on the wheel. The reason: the duc and his cronies were so dissolute that many people thought they deserved to be broken on the tor- ture wheel. |
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