homme fatal
nounEtymology
Adapted borrowing from French homme fatal (literally “fatal man”), after femme fatale.
- borrowed from homme fatal
Definitions
An ultimately seductive and dangerous man
An ultimately seductive and dangerous man; a womanizer.
- However, the danger of the homme fatal, as embodied in today's boyish male hustler, is that he will leave, disappearing to other loves, other lands.
- Though mysterious, treacherous men are common characters in most Gothic works, some of the closest archetypes to the homme fatal can be found in the novels of Ann Radcliffe.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA