The meaning of raking
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What is the meaning of raking in the first sentence?
Men once extolled cold-blooded raking As the true science of love-making: Your own trump everywhere you blew ... Such grave and serious recreation Beseemed old monkeys, of those days ..
From Evgeny Onegin
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A rake is a stylish or fashionable man of dissolute or promiscuous habits, ie a cold, experimental amorist, someone who is cold, sensual, egoistical, elegant. as mentioned below. I think the translator has coined the word 'raking ' to mean ' being a rake '.
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A rake is a stylish or fashionable man of dissolute or promiscuous habits, ie a cold, experimental amorist, someone who is cold, sensual, egoistical, elegant. as mentioned below. I think the translator has coined the word 'raking' to mean 'being a rake'.
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