voluptuary
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Julián, a hacking, aging voluptuary, chastises a couple he knows for avoiding him in public because of their inability to face his illness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
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
His friend, John M. Manly, wrote in the preface to his "Poems and Plays": "He was an epicure of life, a voluptuary of the whole range of physical, mental, and spiritual perfections."
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Joyce Kilmer
A renaissance of bathrooms and bathing seems to be in progress rivaling the innovations of the most inventive Roman voluptuaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Painter Ben Johnson, 60, brings off the neat trick of evoking an almost Rubens fleshiness while adhering to a strict hard-edge technique, and his voluptuaries thrive surprisingly well in their poster environment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous life beyond the reach of the wealthiest voluptuaries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some have become voluptuaries; some mere family men, who think it is quite life enough to win bread for half a dozen people, and treat them decently; others are lost through indolence and vacillation.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
Like the ancients, they were at first heroes and artists, and then voluptuaries and dilettanti; in one as in the other case they, like the ancients, confined life to the present.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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