Voluptuary
[və'lʌptjʊərɪ] or [və'lʌptʃuɛri]
Definition
(noun.) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses.
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Definition
(n.) A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
(a.) Voluptuous; luxurious.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sensualist, epicure, man of pleasure.
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Definition
n. a voluptuous person or one excessively given to bodily enjoyments or luxury: a sensualist.—adj. promoting sensual pleasure.
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Examples
- Fred Lamb's passion increased daily; but I discovered, on our arrival in London, that he was a voluptuary, somewhat worldly and selfish. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Bid the slave-merchant enter, says the Turkish voluptuary with a wave of his hand. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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