epicure
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- n a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
- One epicure, tasting an exhibit, demonstrated that there were at least some people left in the world who appreciated the importance of the finer things in life — the proper blending of spices and garlic in a sausage, for example.
- Unlike the roach, it is an epicure: it feeds on human blood.
- It's true that so many people have mistakenly used "gourmand" as meaning "epicure" rather than "glutton" that its meaning has become fuzzy.