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voluptuary

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vo⋅lup⋅tu⋅ar⋅y

  [vuh-luhp-choo-er-ee] noun, plural -ar⋅ies, adjective
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–noun
1. a person whose life is devoted to the pursuit and enjoyment of luxury and sensual pleasure.
–adjective
2. of, pertaining to, or characterized by preoccupation with luxury and sensual pleasure: voluptuary tastes.
Origin:
1595–1605; < LL voluptuārius, L voluptārius pertaining to (sensual) pleasure, equiv. to volupt(ās) pleasure + -ārius -ary; for -u- see voluptuous
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vo·lup·tu·ar·y   (və-lŭp'chōō-ěr'ē)   
n.   pl. vo·lup·tu·ar·ies
A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist: "an adventurous voluptuary, angling in all streams for variety of pleasures" (Thomas De Quincey).

[French voluptuaire, from Old French, from Late Latin voluptuārius, variant of Latin voluptārius, devoted to pleasure, from voluptās, pleasure; see wel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
vo·lup'tu·ar'y adj.
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