rakehell

Breakfast with Pauling Agre claims he was a "rakehell" as an adolescent who enjoyed an idyllic childhood in a small town in Minnesota.

There was Woodward as "The Fine Gentleman," with the inimitable rakehell air in which the heroes of Wycherly and Congreve and Farquhar live again.

It deals with an exclusive Oxford undergraduate dining club, the Riot, named after an 18th century rakehell.

The "Rose," in Wood Street, was a sponging-house, well known to the rakehells and spendthrifts of Charles II.'s time.

But for such rakehells, Neither fire nor flood will kill them.