voluptuary

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One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker
A woman with a rounded, sensual figure
{n} one given to luxury or pleasure
Of or relating to Voltaire, the French author
A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites
Voluptuous; luxurious
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a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
furnishing gratification of the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness"
That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals
a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses Of or pertaining to voltaism, or voltaic electricity; as, voltaic induction; the voltaic arc
The theories or practice of Voltaire
voluptuaries someone who enjoys physical pleasure and having expensive possessions
{i} lover of pleasure, lover of luxury
voluptuary

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    vo·lup·tu·a·ry

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    Etymologie

    [ v&-'l&p(t)-sh&-"we ] (noun.) circa 1610. From a Late Latin variant of Latin voluptarius (“devoted to pleasure”), from voluptas (“pleasure”).
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