bibulous

Example Sentences

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A person described as bibulous has a fondness for what?

From Slate • Dec. 25, 2023

Charlotte Rampling straddles dry humor and withering tragedy as a bibulous grandmother in “Juniper.”

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023

From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.

From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022

He was born in 1972, and was brought up in a housing project in South London, the youngest of four boys, with a strict English mother and a bibulous Irish Catholic father.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

Holding in his supple fingers both the husband and the wife, and exercising due dominion over the bibulous chevalier, it would be curious if, by and by, the abb� did not attain his ends.

From The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis