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epicure
[ ep-i-kyoor ]
noun
- a person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine; connoisseur.
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- Archaic. a person dedicated to sensual enjoyment.
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epicure
/ 藞蓻辫瑟藢办箩蕣蓹 /
noun
- a person who cultivates a discriminating palate for the enjoyment of good food and drink; gourmet
- a person devoted to sensual pleasures
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Derived Forms
- 藞别辫颈肠耻谤藢颈蝉尘, noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of epicure1
1350鈥1400 for earlier sense; 1555鈥65 epicure fordef 2; Middle English Epicures, Epicureis Epicureans (plural) < Latin 贰辫颈肠奴谤脓耻蝉 (singular) ( epicurean )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of epicure1
C16: from Medieval Latin 别辫颈肠奴谤耻蝉, after Epicurus; see Epicurean
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As French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously put it, 鈥淭ell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.鈥
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Connie is an epicure, a gourmand, a bon vivant, a lover and appreciator of fine food and drink.
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The neighborhood is a treasure trove for the epicure or chef.
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It was the French epicure Brillat-Savarin who noted: 鈥淚 have drawn the following inference, that the limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed.鈥
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The point is to make food that people want to eat, and these are teenage boys, not epicures.
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