Brewer's: Lothario

A gay Lothario. A gay libertine, a seducer of female modesty, a debauchee. The character is from The Fair Penitent, by Rowe, and Rowe's tragedy is from Massinger's Fatal Dowry.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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