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EPICURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epicure mean?
• EPICURE (noun)
The noun EPICURE has 1 sense:
1. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Familiarity information: EPICURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
bon vivant; epicure; epicurean; foodie; gastronome; gourmet
Hypernyms ("epicure" is a kind of...):
sensualist (a person who enjoys sensuality)
Derivation:
epicurean (devoted to pleasure)
Context examples
They took with them the sumpter mules, which carried in panniers the wardrobe and table furniture of Sir Nigel; for the knight, though neither fop nor epicure, was very dainty in small matters, and loved, however bare the board or hard the life, that his napery should still be white and his spoon of silver.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade—the sweet charm of freshness would leave it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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