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voluptuary

[vuh-luhp-choo-er-ee] / vəˈlʌp tʃuˌɛr i /




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Colman won last year’s best-actress Oscar for her portrayal of another British monarch in “The Favourite,” the eccentric and voluptuary Queen Anne, but Elizabeth, aloof to the point of refrigeration, is a different proposition altogether.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

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

We have exchanged the company of Plato, Xenophon, or �schines for that of a Juvenalian Gr�culus, a delicate �sthetic voluptuary.

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington




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