epicure
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It was the French epicure Brillat-Savarin who noted: “I have drawn the following inference, that the limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
He was an epicure; of course he’d refuse to eat something that resembled gruel.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2016
Jeffrey Merrihue, a marketing expert and “semi-pro” epicure, who had eaten in forty-one of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, yelled to his wife, who had been to twenty-eight.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 2, 2015
Whether the consumer is an epicure looking for subtle complexity or a brain-dead office drone looking for a jolt of caffeine, Samper says Colombia coffee can be all things to all people.
From Salon ● May 13, 2013
Miss Honey said, "Do you know what an epicure is, Matilda?"
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
Vocabulary lists containing epicure
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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Matilda
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