debauchee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of debauchee
First recorded in 1655–65, debauchee is from the French word débauché (past participle of débaucher ). See debauch, -ee
Example Sentences
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Presumably it is for the memory of Caligula the soldier, rather than Caligula the desperate debauchee, that Premier Mussolini's engineers and archaeologists are laboring at Lake Nemi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week near Chillicothe, Ohio, such a fe- line debauchee squatted, yowling and jeering, on a road in front of Mrs. E. C. Hood who was driving her car.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not one appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thomas Morton of Mare-Mount, that amusing old debauchee and roysterer, was sentenced to be “clapt into the bilbowes.”
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse
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