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One with a delicate taste for eating and drinking. Someone who enjoys good food and drink.

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  • Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me; I have dined today.
  • At a lavish party hosted by the Carmagos, Inza describes himself as an "epicure" whose blood is a "mixture of fine European wines."
  • Two years with Darco had made him something of an epicure.
  • Because you are an epicure, shall there be no more cakes and ale?
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