voluptuary
/vəˈlʌptjʊəri
/noun (plural voluptuaries)
A person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.The novel's Italians are listless voluptuaries, its Germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are whores or maniacs and its censors are libidinously thrilled by the material they censor....
- Forget purported health benefits of vegetarian meals, this is a dish for voluptuaries.
- The 1963 cult film classic introduced a cast of campy and erotic voluptuaries, some of them drag queens, in a series of beautiful and delirious tableaus.
adjective
Concerned with or characterized by luxury and sensual pleasure: a voluptuary decade when high living was in style
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin volupt(u)arius, from voluptas 'pleasure'.