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gigolo noun [ ˈ(d)ʒɪɡələʊ ]

• a young man paid or financially supported by a woman, typically an older woman, to be her escort or lover.
Similar: playboy, beau, admirer, (male) dancing partner, (male) escort, (male) companion, toy boy, fancy man,
Origin: 1920s (in the sense ‘dancing partner’): from French, formed as the masculine of gigole ‘dance hall woman’, from colloquial gigue ‘leg’.


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