esthete
- n one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
- Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life.
- While indubitably a born writer, he was not in the least an esthete indeed, he compared Esthete Proust's Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue.
- Trompe-l'Oeil work, he knows, "is not popular with the esthete.