luxurist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

luxury +‎ -ist

Noun[edit]

luxurist (plural luxurists)

  1. (obsolete) One given to luxury.
    • c. 1673, William Temple, An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland:
      more abandoned libertines , more refined luxurists , extravagant debauchees

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for luxurist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)