
Rake is a kind of mobile signal receiver.
:''For the agricultural implement, see rake (tool). For other uses, see rake (disambiguation).'' A rake is a stock character, a man who wastes his (usually inheritance) fortune on "wine, woman, and song," incurring lavish debts in the process. The rake is also frequently a cad: a man who seduction a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin. To call the character a ''rake'' calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a ''cad'' implies a callous seducer who coldly breaks his victim's heart. During the English Restoration period 1660-1700, the word was used in a glamorous sense: the Restoration rake is a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat typified by Charles II of England's courtiers the John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and the Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, who combined riotous living with intellectual pursuits and patronage of the arts. The Restoration rake is celebrated in the Restoration comedy of the 1660s and 1670s. After the reign of Charles II, and especially after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the cultural perception of the rake took a dive into squalor. The rake became the butt of moralistic tales in which his typical fate was debtor's prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's ''The Rake's Progress'', insanity in Bedlam. The rake is often portrayed as a heavy drinker or gambler. An earlier form of the word was ''rake-hell'', a form reshaped by folk etymology to mean someone who stokes the fires of Hell, making them hotter. The actual etymology of the word is from the Old Norse language ''reikall'', meaning "vagrant" or "wanderer;" this was borrowed into Middle English as ''rakel''. Well known fictional rakes and cads include: * Dorimant, the hero of ''The Man of Mode'' by George Etherege, based upon the historical Earl of Rochester mentioned below * Compeyson, the man who jilted Miss Havisham in ''Great Expectations'' by Charles Dickens * Rodolphe Boulanger, Madame Bovary's principal lover. * Harry Paget Flashman, chief character of a series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser * Don Juan * Lupin the 3rd, protagonist of an anime series. * Tom, the protagonist of William Hogarth's series of paintings, "A Rake's Progress". Historical figures who have informed the stock character include: * The Prodigal Son, one of Jesus' parables. * Cagliostro * Giacomo Casanova * Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset * John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester * Charles Sedley * John Wilkes * The Hellfire Club * The Marquis de Sade * Hugh Hefner The stock character of the rake can be contrasted with some others. The ''town drunk'' is frequently intoxicated, and impoverished by heavy drinking, but here the focus is on the character's alcoholism state rather than on sexual excess; the town drunk is typically older than the rake. The ''fop'' and the ''dandy'' spend too much money on clothes and fancy living, but the stereotype would have them less sexually effective than the rake. == See also == * ''Playboy'' Stock characters
==Removal of Prodigal Son from the list== While there is no doubt that the character of the Prodigal Son, spoken of by Jesus in parable form, is young and riotous, he nevertheless does not fit the description of a Rake. If a Rake is to be described as a young man who impregnantes a young woman and then leaves her in social and/or financial ruin, then the Prodigal Son does not fit this description. Although the young man is described as riotous and indulging himself in parties, in Jesus' parable there is no description of the man having a sexual relationship with a woman and then leaving her. If the description of Rake in this article is broader than what has been described in the opening paragraph, and can be referred generally to riotous young men, then I will be happy to revert this change - so long as the opening paragraph is changed as well. --User:One Salient Oversight 00:53, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) :You are right, in that the description as it stood is mostly about a ''cad'' rather than a ''rake''; i have expanded it a bit. -- User:Ihcoyc 04:23, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Rake should go to the TOOL == Just my opinion, but when someone looks up rake, chances are they are looking up the tool. User:Themindset 01:09, 26 May 2005 (UTC) :I second this. - User:Furrykef (User_talk:Furrykef) 02:55, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
Words begining with Rake:
RAKE
Rake
Rake
Rake,_IA
Rake,_Iowa
Rake-and-scrape
Rakehoe
Rakeif
Rakel_Liekki
Rakerman
Rakerman
Raker_Qarrigat
Rakesh_Agrawal
Rakesh_Mehta
Rakesh_Roshan
Rakesh_Sharma
Rakesh_Yankaran
Rakesh_Yankeran
Raketooy
Raketooy
Rake_(disambiguation)
Rake_(garden)
Rake_(tool)
Rake_and_scrape
Rake_and_scrape_music
Rake_garden
Rake_hoe
Rake_receiver
Rake_Yohn
Rake_yohn
RAKE
Rake is a kind of mobile signal receiver.
Rake
:''For the agricultural implement, see rake (tool). For other uses, see rake (disambiguation).'' A rake is a stock character, a man who wastes his (usually inheritance) fortune on "wine, woman, and song," incurring lavish debts in the process. The rake is also frequently a cad: a man who seduction a young woman and impregnates her before leaving, often to her social or financial ruin. To call the character a ''rake'' calls attention to his promiscuity and wild spending of money; to call the character a ''cad'' implies a callous seducer who coldly breaks his victim's heart. During the English Restoration period 1660-1700, the word was used in a glamorous sense: the Restoration rake is a carefree, witty, sexually irresistible aristocrat typified by Charles II of England's courtiers the John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester and the Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, who combined riotous living with intellectual pursuits and patronage of the arts. The Restoration rake is celebrated in the Restoration comedy of the 1660s and 1670s. After the reign of Charles II, and especially after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the cultural perception of the rake took a dive into squalor. The rake became the butt of moralistic tales in which his typical fate was debtor's prison, venereal disease, or, in the case of William Hogarth's ''The Rake's Progress'', insanity in Bedlam. The rake is often portrayed as a heavy drinker or gambler. An earlier form of the word was ''rake-hell'', a form reshaped by folk etymology to mean someone who stokes the fires of Hell, making them hotter. The actual etymology of the word is from the Old Norse language ''reikall'', meaning "vagrant" or "wanderer;" this was borrowed into Middle English as ''rakel''. Well known fictional rakes and cads include: * Dorimant, the hero of ''The Man of Mode'' by George Etherege, based upon the historical Earl of Rochester mentioned below * Compeyson, the man who jilted Miss Havisham in ''Great Expectations'' by Charles Dickens * Rodolphe Boulanger, Madame Bovary's principal lover. * Harry Paget Flashman, chief character of a series of novels by George MacDonald Fraser * Don Juan * Lupin the 3rd, protagonist of an anime series. * Tom, the protagonist of William Hogarth's series of paintings, "A Rake's Progress". Historical figures who have informed the stock character include: * The Prodigal Son, one of Jesus' parables. * Cagliostro * Giacomo Casanova * Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset * John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester * Charles Sedley * John Wilkes * The Hellfire Club * The Marquis de Sade * Hugh Hefner The stock character of the rake can be contrasted with some others. The ''town drunk'' is frequently intoxicated, and impoverished by heavy drinking, but here the focus is on the character's alcoholism state rather than on sexual excess; the town drunk is typically older than the rake. The ''fop'' and the ''dandy'' spend too much money on clothes and fancy living, but the stereotype would have them less sexually effective than the rake. == See also == * ''Playboy'' Stock characters
Rake
==Removal of Prodigal Son from the list== While there is no doubt that the character of the Prodigal Son, spoken of by Jesus in parable form, is young and riotous, he nevertheless does not fit the description of a Rake. If a Rake is to be described as a young man who impregnantes a young woman and then leaves her in social and/or financial ruin, then the Prodigal Son does not fit this description. Although the young man is described as riotous and indulging himself in parties, in Jesus' parable there is no description of the man having a sexual relationship with a woman and then leaving her. If the description of Rake in this article is broader than what has been described in the opening paragraph, and can be referred generally to riotous young men, then I will be happy to revert this change - so long as the opening paragraph is changed as well. --User:One Salient Oversight 00:53, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) :You are right, in that the description as it stood is mostly about a ''cad'' rather than a ''rake''; i have expanded it a bit. -- User:Ihcoyc 04:23, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC) == Rake should go to the TOOL == Just my opinion, but when someone looks up rake, chances are they are looking up the tool. User:Themindset 01:09, 26 May 2005 (UTC) :I second this. - User:Furrykef (User_talk:Furrykef) 02:55, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
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RA | RB | RC | RD | RE | RF | RG | RH | RI | RJ | RK | RL | RM | RN | RO | RP | RS | RT | RU | RW | RX | RY | RZ |Words begining with Rake:
RAKE
Rake
Rake
Rake,_IA
Rake,_Iowa
Rake-and-scrape
Rakehoe
Rakeif
Rakel_Liekki
Rakerman
Rakerman
Raker_Qarrigat
Rakesh_Agrawal
Rakesh_Mehta
Rakesh_Roshan
Rakesh_Sharma
Rakesh_Yankaran
Rakesh_Yankeran
Raketooy
Raketooy
Rake_(disambiguation)
Rake_(garden)
Rake_(tool)
Rake_and_scrape
Rake_and_scrape_music
Rake_garden
Rake_hoe
Rake_receiver
Rake_Yohn
Rake_yohn
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