voluptuary
noun
a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
voluptuaries
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pluralof voluptuary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
And when all laughed at this, Ulpian said, Whence do the voluptuaries who talk so loosely get all their elegance of expression?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
He mimics the tree-frog's cry, and migrates after October, like other voluptuaries, who must have the round year warm, and fruit and eggs always in market.
From The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend
