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voluptuaries

voluptuaries is the plural of voluptuary.

Meaning of voluptuary

Noun

voluptuary (plural voluptuaries)

  1. One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist.
    • But Mrs. Cole, in oppoſition to this, aſſured me that the gentlemen I ſhould be preſented to, were, by their rank and taſte of things, infinitely ſuperior to the being touch'd with any glare of dreſs, or ornaments, ſuch as ſilly women rather confound, and overlay, than ſet off their beauty with...1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the Second]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume II, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 16

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Questions about voluptuaries

What is voluptuaries the plural of?
Voluptuaries is the plural of voluptuary.

Words near voluptuaries in the dictionary

  1. voluptary
  2. Voluptas
  3. volupties
  4. voluptuarian
  5. voluptuarians
  6. voluptuaries
  7. voluptuary
  8. voluptuate
  9. voluptuated
  10. voluptuates
  11. voluptuating

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