Other forms: epicures
An epicure is somebody with refined taste in food and drink. A noted epicure.
The word is admiring where glutton is not, and the difference is discrimination. An epicure will eat very little if it is not worth eating.
1nounepicureSomebody with refined taste in food and drink.
“He was an epicure and a very cheap man to feed badly.”
epicure is a person.
Epicurus taught that pleasure was the point of a life, though he meant a quiet one. An epicure took the name and kept only the eating.
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From Epicurus, the Greek philosopher, who in fact taught that pleasure meant plain food and the absence of pain.
From Epicurus, the name of an Ancient Greek philosopher who advocated such a lifestyle.
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