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Word of the Day for Sunday September 4, 2005

sybarite \SIB-uh-ryt\, noun:
A person devoted to luxury and pleasure.(享樂主義者)

This worldly cleric, nicknamed "the sybarite of Saumane",
friend of Voltaire and a social luminary in Paris and
Avignon, lived a high old life within the medieval
fortifications of his chateau in Provence.
--"The dubious charms of Citizen Sade," [1]Irish Times,
April 17, 1999

Beneath the prudish disapproval that colored Upton
Sinclair's assessment of California's wealthy sybarites was
an amused astonishment at how hard they worked at having
fun, at how deadly serious they were about pleasure.
--Richard White, "What California taught America," [2]The
New Republic, December 1, 1997