voluptuary
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From a Late Latin variant of Latin voluptarius (“devoted to pleasure”), from voluptas (“pleasure”).
[edit] Noun
voluptuary (plural voluptuaries)
- One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker.
- A woman with a rounded, sensual figure.
- 2005: Dawn Reynolds was an eighteen-year-old alabaster beauty with cobalt eyes and the figure of a ripe voluptuary. — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 147)
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:sensualist
