sybarite
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From Latin Sybarita, from Ancient Greek Συβαρίτης (Subaritēs, “inhabitant of Subaris”), from Σύβαρις (Subaris, “Sybaris (an ancient Greek city in southeastern Italy noted for the luxurious, pleasure-seeking habits of many of its inhabitants)”)
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- IPA: /ˈsɪbəˌraɪt/
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sybarite (plural sybarites)
- A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.
- A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
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- "Mr. Natural", Crumb's bearded guru is too unapologetic to be called a con man. Despite his renunciation of the material world, he's an unrepentant sybarite. --Wikipedia, R.Crumb.
- "Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite. He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night." -- William Grimes, New York Times (Obituary of Christopher Hitchens), 16 December 2011.
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- See also Wikisaurus:sensualist
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person devoted to pleasure and luxury
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From Latin Sybarita
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- IPA: /si.ba.ʁit/
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sybarite (epicene, plural sybarites)
- related to Sybaris
- soft, effeminate, living in pleasure and luxury
- Ces docteurs frivoles, ces philosophes sybarites qui repoussent toute pensée sérieuse. (Jouy, Hermite, t. 2, 1812)
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- (soft, effeminate, living in pleasure): délicat, jouisseur, sensuel, voluptueux
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sybarite m. (plural sybarites)
- sybarite, person devoted to pleasure and luxury
- Je compris ce qui chagrinait le marquis dans son bonheur, et je découvris quel était le pli de rose dont soupirait ce sybarite sur sa couche de volupté. (Théophile Gautier, Fracasse, 1863)
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- "sybarite" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
