epicure

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epicure

sensualisti, epikurolainen, kulinaristi, nautiskelija, herkkusuu, viinin ja ruoan tuntija, gastronomi, herkuttelija.

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force majeure, kure, houre, kuumehoure, suure, vakiosuure, satunnaissuure...

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Englannin sanakirja

epicure englanniksi

1. A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food and drink.

2. 1610, (w), Pope Joane, in (w), editor, w:The Harleian Miscellany|The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxfords Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for w:Thomas Osborne (publisher)|Thomas Osborne, in w:Grays Inn|Gray's-Inn, 1744, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5325177 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxfords Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes'', volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30776079 30776079, page 95:

If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.

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