fleshpot
Americannoun
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fleshpots,
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places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement.
the fleshpots of Las Vegas.
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luxurious and unrestrained living.
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a pot or vessel containing flesh or meat.
Etymology
Origin of fleshpot
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 Janey Canuck
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 Harry Leon Wilson
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