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epicure
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synonyms: bon vivant, voluptuary, rake, roue, sybarite, vyander ???
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Definition:a person devoted to enjoyment of food and drink
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The amount and variety of foods would have found approval on the menu of a Roman epicure.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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The Persians to make their youth abhor gluttony would paint an epicure sleeping with meat in his mouth, and most horribly overladen with wine, that by the view of such monstrous sights they might eschew the means of the like excess.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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DOL. Not afore night, I have told them in a voice,
Thorough the trunk, like one of your familiars.
But I have spied sir Epicure Mammon—
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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But, as yet, Stubb heeded not the mumblings of the banquet that was going on so nigh him, no more than the sharks heeded the smacking of his own epicurean lips. "Cook, cook!— where's that old Fleece?" he cried at length, widening his legs still further, as if to form a more secure base for his supper; and, at the same time darting his fork into the dish, as if stabbing with his lance;
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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