Citations:homme

English citations of homme

a man (with connotations of French suaveness, etc)

• 2013, Mario Cacho, Burnt Sage, Outskirts Press (→ISBN)

  Outrageously suave with an aura of prim virility, he had a very strong, but quiet presence; an homme of a different breed, a person of exceptional character and complexity. It turned out however, not to be a good moment.

• 2015, Peter Abrahams, Hard Rain, Open Road Media (→ISBN)

  The hair surprised Zyzmchuk, but after a moment or two he noticed that Keith was wearing the kind of horn-rimmed glasses he still wore, noticed the sober expression of a budding homme sérieux: perhaps, with the long hair, an homme of the eighteenth century.

a (gay) feminine man

• 1984, Kris Kirk, Ed Heath, Men in Frocks, Alyson Publications

  Surprisingly, they kept meeting hommes who wanted to go to bed with them, but these weren't homosexuals: "If you ever suggested to an homme in those days that he was homosexual, or even bisexual, he would have killed you." (Poppy Cooper)

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French citations of homme

• 1981, Jacques Boireau, Petite Chronique d'avant l'été, Paris-Gembloux: Duculot, published 1981, →ISBN, page 108:

  On approchait de midi, mais, pour une fois, les femmes ne rentreraient pas chez elles préparer la popote, leurs hommes se débrouilleraient ou les rejoindraient.

  (please add an English translation of this quotation)