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‖ viveur|vivœr|
[Fr., lit. ‘a living person’.]
One who lives a fashionable and social life; a man of pleasure. Cf. bon viveur s.v. bon a.
1845Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 591/2 He became a viveur and jolly dog about town. 1901‘L. Malet’ Hist. Sir Richard Calmady iii. x. 261 He has the credit of being something of a viveur. He knew not only his Paris, but his Baden-Baden, and his Naples, and various other warm corners where great and good men..congregate. 1921L. Strachey Queen Victoria iii. 70 The middle-aged, hard-faced viveur was addressed by his young hostess. 1943Burlington Mag. Aug. 201/1 Boulestin was secretary to Willy, the well-known Parisian author, journalist and viveur, husband to Colette. |