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  • n  a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure

  • Every woman, says the man-about-town, wants to be kissed.
  • In Diary of a Victorian Dandy you made four elaborate photos of a day in the life of a 19th century man-about-town with yourself playing the man.
  • Afraid to go home ahead of his bad news, he checks in at a cheap New York hotel; in the next 48 hours, he tries on a man-about-town role several sizes too large for him.
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  • Stephen Fry in Hindu
    However, 1915 could be labelled a milestone year in Wodehouse's writings, when he created his two most popular characters: Bertie Wooster a "chinless wonder, a well-off young man-about-town and his servant called Jeeves; a brainy, omnipotent who...

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