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  • noun Plural form of esthete.

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Examples

  • They must run their businesses like CEOs and plate their food like esthetes, down to the last sprig of chervil.

    Comfort Foodies 2009

  • Hamilton, a University of London historian, argues that the blues as whites have imagined it β€” a pure and primal musical utterance originating in the deep backcountry of the South β€” is less a creation of black musicians than of white esthetes.

    It’s a White Thing 2008

  • The white space esthetes so decry, for instance, actually conceals telltale watermarks that would be difficult if not impossible to duplicate.

    What's This In My Wallet? 2008

  • Take New York's SoHo district, where airy galleries show cutting-edge art, where artists live and work in spacious lofts and where esthetes chow down together in local bistros.

    There Goes The Neighborhood 2008

  • An answer seems to require the collaboration of economists, jurists, regional planners, ecologists and esthetes.

    Excerpts from Aldo Leopold's Writings 2008

  • Rose then founded the recently deceased Journal of Art, a kind of USA Today for esthetes, with news bulletins from everywhere and loopy editorials.

    Last-Minute Reprieve 2008

  • Rush - Race-baiting works for radio dittoheads but not for cheeseheads and other NFL esthetes.

    Conventional Wisdom 2007

  • The Lindens have done every possible thing they can do to kill this kind of resident-organized public gathering for a whole host of reasons ranging from the campaigning of a few third-party website barons who hate it when the economy doesn't move through their servers, and esthetes offended by popular culture and the "tackiness" of yard sales.

    Civicus 2006

  • Most of our visitors, such as the one running Grahame, were ... esthetes, typical of the species.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Wherever he expects to find these legions of 20-year-old esthetes, it's not the current readership of the U.S. laddie magazines.

    Can Fairchild Recast Scruffy Glossy as W With Testosterone? 2000

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