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epicures

epicures is the plural of epicure.

Meaning of epicure

Noun

epicure (plural epicures)

  1. A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.
    • If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live...1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print...

Questions about epicures

What is epicures the plural of?
Epicures is the plural of epicure.

Words near epicures in the dictionary

  1. epicureanizes
  2. epicureanizing
  3. epicureanly
  4. epicureans
  5. epicureous
  6. epicures
  7. epicurious
  8. epicurise
  9. epicurised
  10. epicurises
  11. epicurish

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