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Definition

a person who loves fine food and drink

More rarely, epicure can refer to a person devoted to sensual enjoyment in general (including the arts).

An epicure in Paris will eventually find her way to this restaurant.

epicure = a person devoted to a refined taste for food

It may be in a city of temples and shrines, but to epicures the centuries-old Nishiki Ichiba market is Kyoto's most blessed place.
Time Magazine, 2008 -- http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1642444_1726285_1726239,00.html (retrieved 09/16/09)
...up would come her dinner in perfect order, and in a style of preparation with which an epicure could find no fault.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
...a more humane, gentlemanly and amiable set of epicures do not probably exist in the Pacific.
Herman Melville -- Typee
...every delicacy of eating and drinking that the most singular epicure could possibly require.
Charles Dickens -- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Ogre that he was, he spoke like an epicure.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

epicure = a person devoted to a refined taste for food

—Then fly, false thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:
William Shakespeare -- Macbeth

epicures = weak and decadent (people devoted to sensual pleasures)

Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,
Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra

epicurean = devoted to a refined taste for food

Dr. Flint was an epicure.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

epicure = a person devoted to a refined taste for food

Peppino was decidedly an epicure.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Mr. Jefferson said that the Epicurean philosophy came nearest to the truth, in his opinion, of any ancient system of philosophy.
David McCullough -- John Adams
He was the founder of the Epicurean school of philosophy which taught that pleasure should be man's chief aim and that the highest pleasure is freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
She was nice only from natural delicacy, but he had been brought up in a school of luxury and epicurism.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
Because at some more flexible period he had advanced from oranges to grape-fruit he considered himself an epicure.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
The amount and variety of foods would have found approval on the menu of a Roman epicure.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
You're an Epicurean like myself, I see: you don't want to see all those goddesses gobbling terrapin.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
"I like to do things like this," she said in the delicate voice of an epicure in emotions, which left no doubt that she spoke the truth.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
'Leave the fat, whatever you do!' exclaimed I. 'Why, my dear, that is the very best part, and the delight of the epicures.
Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
The Epicureans As we have seen, Socrates was concerned with finding out how man could live a good life.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Recollection of the best ordained banquets will scarcely cheer sick epicures.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair

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