Definition of "Valentino"

Valentino

proper noun
plural Valentinos or Valentinoes
1. A surname from Italian
noun
plural Valentinos
1. (dated) A ladies' man; a lothario.
  Quotations
  She was working on a stage which represented a guardroom for Christian prisoners, and presently they went there and watched Nicotera, one of many hopeful Valentinos, strut and pose before a dozen female “captives,” their eyes melancholy and startling with mascara.
  1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons; republished as Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance [...] With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 230