Found 3 hits - Term: voluptuary, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voluptuary \volup"tuary\ ?; 135, n.; pl. voluptuaries.
l. voluptuarius or voluptarius, fr. voluptas pleasure.
a voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his
chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of
sensual appetites.
1913 webster
a good-humored, but hard-hearted, voluptuary. --sir w.
scott.
1913 webster
syn: sensualist; epicure.
1913 webster
see also:
voluptuaries
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
voluptuary \volup"tuary\, a.
voluptuous; luxurious.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
voluptuary
adj : furnishing gratification of 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" syn: epicurean,
luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuous
n : a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
syn: sybarite
see also:
epicurean luxurious sybaritic voluptuous sybarite
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