viveur

• “He wanted first editions of the poets; had a liking for old furniture and old silver, for fine pictures, Eastern carpets and Renascence bronzes; in fine, he had all the artist's desires as well as those of the poet and "viveur".”

  Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions

• “B--- is 'viveur' no doubt, mais, mon Dieu, que voulezvous?”

  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

• “B--- is 'viveur' no doubt, mais, mon Dieu, que voulez vous?”

  Villa Rubein, and other stories

• “He read out: ‘This known bon viveur, Wit, rakehell, and royal intimate, has abducted Mistress Elizabeth Malet, the great heiress of the North, who is only sixteen years old!’”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “That the air around him is delicately perfumed with vestigial lunchtime booze just seems like the finishing touch to the portrait of a Manhattan bon viveur.”

  The Guardian: Stanley Tucci: 'The numbers mean nothing to me'

• “Willie, though an elder of the Church of Scotland, seemed to me a bon viveur, fond of his dram.”

  The Guardian: Family life

• “Yet his subsequent existence as a freelance engineer was no less intense, as he careered across America with noted bon viveur Robert Palmer, ate opium with John Martyn and emerged from making two Talk Talk albums in total darkness with both his sanity and marriage somehow intact.”

  The Guardian: Life in the recording studio with Led Zep, Bob Marley and many more

• “By contrast, LulzSec, whose website plays the theme from Love Boat and has a monocled cartoon bon viveur as its avatar, is more flamboyant.”

  The Guardian: Hackers' childish squabble that ended in a raid by Scotland Yard

• “The Best of France in London with Stephen Bayley Stephen Bayley – author, critic, curator, bon viveur – leads a bicycle ride through French-influenced London.”

  The Guardian: Best of the London Festival of Architecture

• “But his greatest love was not expended on the Commander, but on his mother, Yvonne, who would have wished to have been a bon viveur in metropolitan society, but was stuck instead in small-town gentility with her peevish husband.”

  The Huffington Post: Christopher Hitchens' "Hitch 22": Left? Right? Center?

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