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epicure

[ep-i-kyoor] / ˈɛp ɪˌkjʊər /


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The neighborhood is a treasure trove for the epicure or chef.

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2021

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

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




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