sybarite

sybarite

1. sybariitti

Synonyymisanakirja

sybarite

sensualisti, nautiskelija.

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Englannin sanakirja

sybarite (englanti > suomi)

1. nautiskelija, sybariitti

sybarite englanniksi

1. A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.

2. 1969, Victor Ernest Watts (translator), w:Boethius Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (author), The (w), (w), book III, chapter iv, page 87:

Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite.

3. 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times:

Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite. He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.

4. related to Sybaris

5. soft, effeminate, living in pleasure and luxury

Ces docteurs frivoles, ces philosophes sybarites qui repoussent toute pensée sérieuse. (Jouy, Hermite, t. 2, 1812)

6. English sybarite, person devoted to pleasure and luxury

Je compris ce qui chagrinait le marquis dans son bonheur, et je découvris quel était le pli de rose dont soupirait ce sybarite sur sa couche de volupté. (Théophile Gautier, Fracasse, 1863)

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