voluptuary
a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
of, relating to, or characterized by preoccupation with luxury and sensual pleasure: voluptuary tastes.
Origin of voluptuary
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How to use voluptuary in a sentence
It was also an occasion for voluptuary displays of tough-mindedness.
But the loathsome death of this brutal voluptuary soon delivered the church from the most implacable of its foes.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowHe was a voluptuary in Art, and no one enjoyed real masterpieces with more refinement, passion, and sensuousness than he did.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierThis was lost upon an audience insufficiently familiar with the works of that great voluptuary.
Aristippus, the founder of the Cyreniac school, was a sort of philosophic voluptuary, teaching that pleasure is the end of life.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John Lord
What security had he, that in this change of place and condition, he should not degenerate into a tyrant and voluptuary?
Wieland; or The Transformation | Charles Brockden Brown
British Dictionary definitions for voluptuary
/ (vəˈlʌptjʊərɪ) /
a person devoted or addicted to luxury and sensual pleasures
of, relating to, characterized by, or furthering sensual gratification or luxury
Origin of voluptuary
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