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Meanings of epicure in English
A person who enjoys choosing, eating and drinking high quality food and wines and who knows a lot about them.
Usage of epicure in English
1
In favorable surroundings, she would have been an aristocrat and an epicure.
2
Certainly, he mused to himself, his brother was an epicure in love.
3
Gourmet meals, enjoyed by the experienced taste buds of a real epicure.
4
He ate heartily, but was no epicure, nor critical about his food.
5
An epicure's a feller which chaws his fodder before he swallers it.
6
Her wit, perhaps, her money, the pleasure she gave your epicure's taste.
7
But our modern Christianity, like an epicure's rare wines, is preferred iced.
8
The bishop died long ago; and he never was an epicure.
9
The true epicure in refined pleasures will never travel to Basle by night.
10
The hump meat and tongues afforded them a repast fit for an epicure.
11
He discussed our present prospects with the air of an epicure ordering dinner.
12
The hump meat afforded them a repast fit for an epicure.
13
You are mistaken again: I am by no means an epicure.
14
Bake until tender and you will have a dish to satisfy an epicure.
15
Two years with Darco had made him something of an epicure.
16
He used it like an epicure, poking his viands apart for sharpest scrutiny.
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