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  • noun Plural form of voluptuary.

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Examples

  • It could be that the clientele has always and ever been the European tourists who, on any given day, celebrate the café's obvious debt to the Parisian bistros, or the local business people and itinerant voluptuaries such as myself who come here all the time.

    Terence Clarke: Restaurant Review: Cafe de La Presse, San Francisco Terence Clarke 2011

  • It could be that the clientele has always and ever been the European tourists who, on any given day, celebrate the café's obvious debt to the Parisian bistros, or the local business people and itinerant voluptuaries such as myself who come here all the time.

    Terence Clarke: Restaurant Review: Cafe de La Presse, San Francisco Terence Clarke 2011

  • It could be that the clientele has always and ever been the European tourists who, on any given day, celebrate the café's obvious debt to the Parisian bistros, or the local business people and itinerant voluptuaries such as myself who come here all the time.

    Terence Clarke: Restaurant Review: Cafe de La Presse, San Francisco Terence Clarke 2011

  • George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney, took the notion of "executive privilege" to a whole new level which future historians may well see as the real prize in Iraq -- not the oil, but more power at home; a presidency on steroids, and the voluptuaries of profit would want nothing less.

    Jayne Lyn Stahl: Another Unitary in the White House? 2010

  • George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney, took the notion of "executive privilege" to a whole new level which future historians may well see as the real prize in Iraq -- not the oil, but more power at home; a presidency on steroids, and the voluptuaries of profit would want nothing less.

    Another Unitary in the White House? 2010

  • George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney, took the notion of "executive privilege" to a whole new level which future historians may well see as the real prize in Iraq -- not the oil, but more power at home; a presidency on steroids, and the voluptuaries of profit would want nothing less.

    Jayne Lyn Stahl: Another Unitary in the White House? Jayne Lyn Stahl 2010

  • It was perhaps a lucky accident of history that his cause was aided by patriots nearly as nuanced as he: in Boston were Paul Revere and John Hancock and the Adamses, noted voluptuaries and lovers of pleasure, easily distinguished in a crowd by the rich, ambergris-based New England bath oils in which they drenched themselves.

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney, took the notion of "executive privilege" to a whole new level which future historians may well see as the real prize in Iraq -- not the oil, but more power at home; a presidency on steroids, and the voluptuaries of profit would want nothing less.

    Jayne Lyn Stahl: Another Unitary in the White House? 2009

  • Antoninus, when the wisdom of thy rule, long unfelt in a world which has been guided by tyrants and voluptuaries, shall soon obliterate recollection of the manner in which thy power was acquired.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • The influx of slaves and voluptuaries from the Levant aided in the dissemination of the vices of the orient among the ruder Romans.

    Satyricon 2007

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