voluptuary
Example Sentences
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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
Since 1896, Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” has provided opportunities for lush decadence — and who could object? — with its despotic voluptuary King Herod and the petulant title character.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2011
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
He was a man of much mind and of large ideas, as well as a man with the tastes of a voluptuary, and the means, for a time, of a Count of Monte Cristo.
From The Rulers of the Mediterranean by Davis, Richard Harding