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He was like an all-night debauchee who scrubs up well in a suit the next morning only to abandon all restraint again the next night.

In the book’s most-arresting image, an old goat looks truly goatish, half Pan, half jaded debauchee, as he casts a rakishly appraising glance at the reader.

The community of revelers on view — debauchees of varying ages, races and sexualities — are not the only ones who may find themselves in search of a restorative gin.

Hal prefers to roister and rut — we first meet him in bed with three others — in the company of Falstaff and his fellow debauchees in a tavern in Eastcheap.

For a woman infamous for her material life — to many, she remains the uncouth child of Soviet privilege, a debauchee of suspect talents who imported only the worst of the West — Sobchak is well read.