Citations:homme
English citations of homme
a man (with connotations of French suaveness, etc)
edit- 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
edit- 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)
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)