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Six example sentences with epicure, each labelled with its topic.
The old epicure kept a notebook rating every oyster he had eaten since 1974, with weather noted beside each entry.
Cooking
An epicure will plan an entire trip around one restaurant, then walk four miles to reach it in the rain.
Travel
The novel's narrator is an epicure who describes a bowl of soup for six pages and the entire journey in one.
Literature
Apicius, the most famous epicure of ancient Rome, is said to have sailed to Africa just to taste its prawns.
History
The Greek philosopher of pleasure lived on bread and water, so the modern epicure who quotes him at a banquet has the philosopher backwards.
Philosophy
The restaurant markets itself to the epicure, with a tasting menu that changes daily and a wine list bound in leather.
Business
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