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Meanings of bon vivant in English

Catalan
gourmet
Spanish
epicúreo

A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)

gourmet
Usage of bon vivant in English
1
The noble profession of bon vivant appeared to him very tame and tiresome.
The Lerouge Case
2
The Major was somewhat of a bon vivant, and his wine was excellent.
Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1
3
He was essentially a bon vivant, a boulevardier and a humorist.
Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
4
The worthy man seems to have had the amiable infirmities of a bon vivant.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V
5
His was a bluff purple face, denoting the bon vivant.
A Love Story
6
Never shall we know again so glorious a bon vivant.
Godolphin, Complete
7
In short, the cardinal was a man of wit, and what is called a bon vivant.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
8
He was her sole bon vivant in the true sense of the word, whatever that may be.
The Oakdale Affair
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But I admire her, as an actor and an activist, but above all as a bon vivant.
The Guardian
10
She has, however, taken one enormous fee from a bon vivant, whose life she saved by esculents.
A Woman-Hater
11
Branford T. Purell, killer, bon vivant, corpse.
A farewell to legs: an aaron tucker mystery
12
Michael Terrence Brennan, litigator, connoisseur, and irrepressible bon vivant, withdrew directly into a bottle of good Irish whiskey.
Bones to Ashes
13
Islamists paint Moussa as a cigar-smoking bon vivant whose wealth renders him out of touch with the people.
Reuters
14
He is a true bon vivant, and does not appear to take himself or his work too seriously.
100 New Yorkers of the 1970s
15
He had thought of him as an intellectual, who was also a bon vivant and interested in Neapolitan life.
A Spirit in Prison
16
His intimacy and friendship for Jan Steen, that excellent painter and bon vivant, seems to have led him into much inconvenience.
A Wanderer in Holland
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