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Meanings of voluptuary in anglès

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sibarita

A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses.

sibarita

Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses.

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Usage of voluptuary in anglès
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This inscription was composed by a voluptuary of the school of Petronius.
The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
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Such a word was a mockery in the mouth of such a voluptuary.
Bought and Paid For; From the Play of George Broadhurst
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Perhaps it is, to the heaven of the modern sybarite, the ethical voluptuary.
Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold
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She appears in the strongest sense a voluptuary and sensualist, but without refinement.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
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Bigot, a voluptuary in every sense, craved a change of pleasure.
The Golden Dog
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He was not a voluptuary nor a boaster nor a wit.
Devereux — Volume 05
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I had blithely handed him -thefamous seasoned voluptuary!-my virginity.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Lucullus, autocrat and voluptuary as he was, governed his province well.
Lectures and Essays
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The thought of a voluptuary in pain is very terrible.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
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In Julius Caesar, a voluptuary and red with carnage, there were yet multitudinous virtues.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
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The irresolute voluptuary before whom these plans were laid could decide manfully upon neither.
The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
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This former voluptuary preserved only the good side of gallantry.
The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
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Now the apostle may be a voluptuary without much conscience.
Treatise on Parents and Children
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His retired life was, in fact, that of a voluptuary.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
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Though a coxcomb and a voluptuary, he seems to have had some fine qualities.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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