bon vivant

NOUN
  1. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
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  • I would have doubted that there is, except for a very interesting bit of cobblestones-and-barricades talk masquerading as dark whimsey from our good friend and bon vivant Mark Morford in the San Francisco Chronicle also this grim Wednesday morning with the message "Eat the Rich", a title he swiped from Aerosmith (their song linked in his essay is worth listening to if you were born after 1935). The Hundred Year Storm
  • That didn't mean I began to live like an anchorite; far from it: I suppose I will always be true to my nature as a bon vivant. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Seattle Bon Vivant recommends Le Palais des Thés green teas (packaged, in compressed tea blocks or loose in beautiful pots). My Paris
  • The landlord indeed spoke a little thick, and the texts of Mr. Thomas Trumbull stumbled on his tongue; but Nanty was one of those topers, who, becoming early what bon vivants term flustered, remain whole nights and days at the same point of intoxication; and, in fact, as they are seldom entirely sober, can be as rarely seen absolutely drunk. Redgauntlet
  • Assisting their cellar-master in creating this Frankenstein of brandies was the legendary cocktail historian, author and all-around bon vivant, David Wondrich. Tony Sachs: Drinking The Past: New Spirits Recreate Vintage Tastes
  • Four years older than John Peter of Bowhay, and seven older than Will, he was a bon vivant fond of dining and dicing: a suitable escort for his country cousins in Europe's most populous city.
  • Cole was an impeccable dresser, a natty bon vivant locked in a jet-setter's fashion sense.
  • When he won, the elite questioned whether the college dropout was up to running the country and scoffed at his reputation as a bumbling public speaker, bon vivant and serial womanizer.
  • The bon vivant in thin superposition over the hard expression of the classic bloodsucker. DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
  • Buckley was a bon vivant with luxurious tastes, a prolific author of best-selling novels as well as serious nonfiction, a sportsman most gleeful on icy slopes and navigating through a gale, a world-class namedropper, a refined musicologist (and self-taught harpsichord player) and a lover of big words (a sesquipedalian, as he might say). He Knew He Was Right
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