esthete
Example Sentences
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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
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
Closer to the old-fashioned esthete is hollow-eyed, taciturn Maurice Sterne, hard at work in California last week on a panel for the Department of Justice.
From Time Magazine Archive
He still has this ability, and when he picks up a potsherd, he handles it as tenderly as a Chinese esthete caressing a piece of jade.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
