man about town

noun

Definitions

  1. A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.

    • I'm very much the man about town.
    • For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.
    • To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husband's virtues.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for man about town. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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