voluptuary
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Julián, a hacking, aging voluptuary, chastises a couple he knows for avoiding him in public because of their inability to face his illness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
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
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
There was no vanity in the man; he was studying his face out of sheer curiosity, from a new and quite impersonal point of view, as that of an enormous hypocrite and voluptuary.
From Peccavi by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
A renaissance of bathrooms and bathing seems to be in progress rivaling the innovations of the most inventive Roman voluptuaries.
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Most important, the winged folk held out the prospect of an airy, insubstantial and blissfully frivolous life beyond the reach of the wealthiest voluptuaries.
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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.
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Only let us note that his nature never became, as do the natures of most voluptuaries, corroded by a cruel indifference to the happiness of others.
From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Sir Max Beerbohm
The frugality of his manner of life did not lose him the good opinion even of the voluptuaries of the showiest of capitals, whose very iron railings are not free from gilt.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville