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fleshpot

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[flesh-pot] / ˈflɛʃˌpɒt /

noun

  1. fleshpots,

    1. places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement.

      the fleshpots of Las Vegas.

    2. luxurious and unrestrained living.

  2. a pot or vessel containing flesh or meat.


Etymology

Origin of fleshpot

First recorded in 1525–35; flesh + pot 1

Example Sentences

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We eat and eat just as if eating were our chief and ever-lasting happiness, and as if life itself lay in a fleshpot.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey

They were presently at table, Clytie in a trance of ecstatic watchfulness for emptied plates, broken only by reachings and urgings of this or that esteemed fleshpot.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon

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