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Casanova

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Cas·a·no·va  (ks-nv, kz-)
n.
1. A man who is amorously and gallantly attentive to women.
2. A promiscuous man; a philanderer.
[After Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt.]
Casanova
Noun
a promiscuous man [after Giovanni Casanova, Italian adventurer]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Casanova - an Italian adventurer who wrote vivid accounts of his sexual encounters (1725-1798)
Casanova de Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova de Seingalt
2.Casanova - any man noted for his amorous adventures
philanderer, womaniser, womanizer - a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them
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If a commoner gave a noble even so much as a Damiens-scratch which didn't kill or even hurt, he got Damiens' dose for it just the same; they pulled him to rags and tatters with horses, and all the world came to see the show, and crack jokes, and have a good time; and some of the performances of the best people present were as tough, and as properly unprintable, as any that have been printed by the pleasant Casanova in his chapter about the dismember- ment of Louis XV.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
-- Baron Trenck, nor Casanova, nor Benvenuto Chel- leeny, nor Henri IV.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
If she had not been so decent her references would have seemed to carry one back to the queer rococo Venice of Casanova.
The Aspern Papers by James, Henry View in context
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