homme fatal
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ultimately seductive and dangerous man; a womanizer.
Example Sentences
- "However, the danger of the homme fatal, as embodied in today's boyish male hustler, is that he will leave, disappearing to other loves, other lands."
- "Though mysterious, treacherous men are common characters in most Gothic works, some of the closest archetypes to the homme fatal can be found in the novels of Ann Radcliffe."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French