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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
/ ˈɛ±èɪˌ°ìÂáÊŠÉ™ /
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
- ˈ±ð±è¾±³¦³Ü°ùËŒ¾±²õ³¾, noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of epicure1
1350–1400 for earlier sense; 1555–65 epicure fordef 2; Middle English Epicures, Epicureis Epicureans (plural) < Latin ·¡±è¾±³¦Å«°ùŧ³Ü²õ (singular) ( epicurean )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of epicure1
C16: from Medieval Latin ±ð±è¾±³¦Å«°ù³Ü²õ, after Epicurus; see Epicurean
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As French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously put it, “Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.â€
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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: “I have drawn the following inference, that the limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed.â€
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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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