English

Alternative forms

• man-about-town

Noun

man about town ‎(plural men about town)

1. A worldly, social man who frequents fashionable places.
   • 1902, W. Somerset Maugham, Mrs Craddock, 1992 penguin Classics ed., ISBN 0140185941, page 71:

     To Bertha this was a charm rather than a defect; his bashful candour touched her, and she compared it favourably with the foolish worldliness of the imaginary man about town whose dissipation she always opposed to her husband's virtues.

Synonyms

• boulevardier
• flaneur

See also

• bon vivant
• dandy