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voluptuary

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vo·lup·tu·ar·y  (v-lpch-r)
n. pl. vo·lup·tu·ar·ies
A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist: "an adventurous voluptuary, angling in all streams for variety of pleasures" Thomas De Quincey.
[French voluptuaire, from Old French, from Late Latin volupturius, variant of Latin voluptrius, devoted to pleasure, from volupts, pleasure; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
vo·luptu·ary adj.
voluptuary
Noun
pl -aries a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasures [Latin voluptas pleasure]
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Noun1.voluptuary - a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
sybarite
sensualist - a person who enjoys sensuality
Adj.1.voluptuary - displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
luxurious, sybaritic, luxuriant, epicurean, voluptuous
indulgent - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; "indulgent grandparents"
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The golden year was dying as it had lived, a beautiful and unrepentant voluptuary, and reminiscent rapture and content freighted heavily the air.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
But the rascal of a painter, poet, novelist, or other voluptuary in labor, is not content with his advantage in popular esteem over the ploughman; he also wants an advantage in money, as if there were more hours in a day spent in the studio or library than in the field; or as if he needed more food to enable him to do his work than the ploughman to enable him to do his.
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