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Word of the Day for Saturday, September 5, 2009voluptuary \vuh-LUHP-choo-er-ee\, noun: 1. A person devoted to luxury and the gratification of sensual appetites; a sensualist. adjective: Colette used to begin her day's writing by first picking fleas from her cat, and it's not hard to imagine how the methodical stroking and probing into fur might have focused such a voluptuary's mind. Though depicted as a decadent voluptuary, she remained celibate for more than half of her adult life. The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, on the other hand, is more of a voluptuary, taking conscious pleasure in its own reflected richness. Voluptuary derives from Latin voluptarius, "devoted to pleasure," from voluptas, "pleasure." | |||||||||
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