Epicure
(3 syl.). A sensualist; one addicted to good eating and drinking.
So called from Epicuros (q.v.).
Sir Epicure.
A worldly sensualist in The Alchemist, by Ben Jonson. His
surname is “Mammon.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Epicure from Fact Monster:
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