epicure

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  1. noun A person with refined taste, especially in food and wine.
  2. noun A person devoted to sensuous pleasure and luxurious living. See Usage Note at gourmet.

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  • In one aspect of his personality Gleason was an epicure, almost a sybarite. —  June, 1943
  • You are the epicure, and I am the proprietor; you seize my apple, and I protest. —  The Moral Economy
  • He is a confirmed epicure, and at plundering hen-roosts an expert. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866
  • He had discovered himself to be an epicure, and an amazing quantity of the good things of this life fell to his share--no, hardly that--but disappeared mysteriously from shelf and jar and box, and only grave, innocent-looking Tode could have told whither they went. —  Three People
  • The Honourable and Reverend Montacute himself was an epicure, and disliked conversation during dinner. —  Tancred Or, The New Crusade
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, an Epicurean, from Medieval Latin epicūrus, from Latin Epicūrus, Epicurus, from Greek Epikouros.

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  1. from Epicure, from French Épicure, from Latin Epicurus, from Greek (Επίκουρος, a philosopher of this name (see Epicurean, n.), literally an assistant, ally, from ἐπί, upon, to, + κόρος, κοῦρος, a (free-born) youth (acting as assistant in sacrifices, etc.).
  2. from epicure, n.
 

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