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rakehell

(n): a dissolute man in fashionable society
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4 months ago yarb said:

He approached Baryba and stared at him with his glassy eyes, booming away: 'Well, and we never hoped to see you again, my boy. People were saying you got to be a regular rakehell. We thought the woman would ride you to death. That Chebotarikha, she's a glutton, she could gobble a man, bones and all.'

- Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Provincial Tale, in The Dragon & Other Stories (tr. Mirra Ginsburg)

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