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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

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

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

"This imitation of the discipline of the ancient republic," says Merivale, "excited neither applause nor indignation among the languid voluptuaries of the Senate."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various

Far more than all the voluptuaries of all ages have dreamed of shall exist, heightened by a purity they could not conceive of.

From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas