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Definition
a person who loves fine food and drinkMore 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
- —Then fly, false thanes,
And mingle with the English epicures:William Shakespeare -- Macbeth - Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,
Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooksWilliam Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra - Dr. Flint was an epicure.Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- 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
epicure = a person devoted to a refined taste for food
epicures = weak and decadent (people devoted to sensual pleasures)
epicurean = devoted to a refined taste for food
epicure = a person devoted to a refined taste for food