esthete
Example Sentences
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Initially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016
In “Wilde’s Women,” Eleanor Fitzsimons reminds us of the many writers, actresses, political activists, professional beauties and aristocratic ladies who helped shape the life and legend of the era’s greatest wit, esthete and sexual martyr.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2016
He left Oxford, where he was a leading esthete, to fight in Macedonia, returned to take his degree.
From Time Magazine Archive
Michelangelo Antonioni, 49, is the temperamental antithesis of Fellini�a sensitive esthete who could hardly make an error of taste if he tried.
From Time Magazine Archive
But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
