epicure

ep·i·cure (

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1. A person with refined taste, especially in food and wine.

2. A person devoted to sensuous pleasure and luxurious living. See Usage Note at gourmet.

[Middle English, an Epicurean, from Medieval Latin epicrus, from Latin Epicrus, Epicurus, from Greek Epikouros.]

epicure [ˈɛpɪˌkjʊə]

1. a person who cultivates a discriminating palate for the enjoyment of good food and drink; gourmet

2. a person devoted to sensual pleasures

[from Medieval Latin epicūrus, after Epicurus; see Epicurean]

epicurism n

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Noun

epicure - a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

bon vivant, epicurean, foodie, gastronome, gourmet

sensualist - a person who enjoys sensuality

epicure

noun gourmet, foodie, glutton, epicurean, hedonist, gourmand, bon vivant (French), gastronome, sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary These delicacies will delight gastronomes and epicures.

Translations

epicure [ˈepɪkjʊəʳ] N → gastrónomo/a m/f

epicure

n → Feinschmecker(in) m(f)

epicure [ˈɛpɪkjʊəʳ] n → buongustaio/a

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Many exquisite viands might be rejected by the epicure, if it was a sufficient cause for his contemning of them as common and vulgar, that something was to be found in the most paltry alleys under the same name.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

He would have been seven times more Epicure, and atheist, than he was.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

As an epicure snatches a taste of every dish which is successively brought to table, he not having allowed himself time to enjoy the one before, so have I gone from one subject to another without having discovered what I sought at first, the nature of justice.

The Republic by Plato View in context

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