convivialist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]convivialist (plural convivialists)
- A person of convivial habits.
- (archaic) A person who drinks alcohol.
- Herman Melville (1857) chapter 2, in The Confidence-Man, page 10: “…there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and foreigners; men of business and men of pleasure;…teetotalers and convivialists…”