esthete

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In “Wilde’s Women,” Eleanor Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

Initially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016

He is an unabashed esthete who believes that travel is ideally the soul's refreshment among masterpieces.

From Time Magazine Archive

He tells a hilarious tale about a Rotting Hill esthete who detests the National Health Service and chooses to have his operation in a nursing home run by nuns.

From Time Magazine Archive

But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee