Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Blase

(pronounce blah-zay ). Surfeited with pleasure. A man blasé is one who has had full swing to all the pleasures of life, and has no longer any appetite for any of them. A worn out debauchée (French, blaser, to exhaust with enjoyment).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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