viveurs

From being volatile rebels, the lazzari became the ragged bon viveurs who so fascinated the Grand Tourists.

Delizia! John Dickie 2008

He had every right to deny poseurs, charlatans and bon viveurs who never produced the work they talked about.

Orwell and Bohemia 1994

He had formerly been one of the most noted lions and _viveurs_ of Stockholm, but had latterly taken to himself a beautiful wife, and had become a more settled character; though his exuberant spirits and love of enjoyment still remained, and rendered him the gayest and most agreeable of travelling companions.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

They are known to be keen hands, _viveurs_, jolly good fellows withal, and, moreover, men who can wrestle with wethers ten hours a day (no light task on the muscles) and yet have spirit to dance and play all night.

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

They were _bons viveurs_, in the intensest meaning of the words.

Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

After a dejeuner fit for the most exacting of bon viveurs we sat in that courtyard and smoked, while an ancient waiter served us with coffee that dripped through silver percolators into our glasses.

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

After a dejeuner fit for the most exacting of bon viveurs we sat in that courtyard and smoked, while an ancient waiter served us with coffee that dripped through silver percolators into our glasses.

A Traveller in War-Time Winston Churchill 1909

Now go to your brewers, your wine merchants, your champagne touts, your fool undergraduates, your clubmen, your guzzling viveurs -- and they'll all tell you the contrary.

The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899

Where we fail, many of us, is in the elaborateness of our pleasures, in the fact that we learn to be connoisseurs rather than viveurs, in losing our taste for the ancient wholesome activities and delights.

Joyous Gard Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

A party of heedless _viveurs_ and _demoiselles_ of the half-world were enjoying themselves together as in the palmy imperial days.

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887