voluptuary

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Gumprecht Weiss — we learn his name later on — had once been a voluptuary but in middle age now prefers an ascetic, philosophical life.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2015

You probably don't picture a notorious voluptuary, a man who just last year was chowing on double burgers right before a conference on obesity.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2010

In place of some Hollywood voluptuary, she gives us a Cleopatra who is a working queen and ruler: at one point we even see her in specs sitting at a desk signing state papers.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2010

The eponymous regent, the Prince of Wales who ruled when his father, George III, went mad, was “a voluptuary of the highest order.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2010

That Petronius was deeply tainted is only too probable from his associations, although Tacitus implies that he was rather a fastidious voluptuary than a gross debauchee.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel