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noun

epicure

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

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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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