voluptuary

Gumprecht Weiss — we learn his name later on — had once been a voluptuary but in middle age now prefers an ascetic, philosophical life.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2015

Since 1896, Oscar Wilde’s “Salome” has provided opportunities for lush decadence — and who could object? — with its despotic voluptuary King Herod and the petulant title character.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2011

You probably don't picture a notorious voluptuary, a man who just last year was chowing on double burgers right before a conference on obesity.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2010

In place of some Hollywood voluptuary, she gives us a Cleopatra who is a working queen and ruler: at one point we even see her in specs sitting at a desk signing state papers.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010

The courage and stoical endurance of the soldier vanished, and were replaced by the soft indulgence of the voluptuary.

From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous life beyond the reach of the wealthiest voluptuaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

A renaissance of bathrooms and bathing seems to be in progress rivaling the innovations of the most inventive Roman voluptuaries.

From Time Magazine Archive

Painter Ben Johnson, 60, brings off the neat trick of evoking an almost Rubens fleshiness while adhering to a strict hard-edge technique, and his voluptuaries thrive surprisingly well in their poster environment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some were wealthy voluptuaries, glad to propagate their own habits of extravagance among those they suspected of fortunes smaller than their own.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

And when all laughed at this, Ulpian said, Whence do the voluptuaries who talk so loosely get all their elegance of expression?

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us