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Playboy (lifestyle)
A playboy is a wealthy man with ample time for leisure, who demonstratively is a ''bon vivant'' (appreciates the pleasures of the world, especially women). The term "playboy" is sometimes used to described a conspicuous womanizer.
==Development==
Initially the term was used in the eighteenth century for boys who performed in the theatre,〔Levy S., p. 117〕 and later it appears in the 1828 Oxford Dictionary to characterize a person with money who is out to enjoy himself.〔 link broken June 2015〕 By the end of the nineteenth century it also implied the connotations of "gambler" and "musician."〔Levy S., p.117〕 By 1907, in J. M. Synge’s comedy ''The Playboy of the Western World'', the term had acquired the notion of a womanizer. According to Shawn Levy, the term reached its full meaning in the interwar years and early post WWII years. Postwar intercontinental travel allowed playboys to meet at international nightclubs and famous "playgrounds" such as the Riviera or Palm Beach where they were trailed by papparazzi (immortalized in Fellini's ''La Dolce Vita'') who supplied the tabloids with material to be fed to an eager audience. Their sexual conquests are rich, beautiful, and famous. In 1953, Hugh Hefner caught the wave and created the ''Playboy'' magazine.〔Levy S., p. 118〕
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