Sybarite
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- A native or inhabitant of Sybaris.
- A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
- 1973: Klein-Rogge jumped in, with all claws out, drove her effeminate husband to suicide, seized her, threw her on his bed, the languid bitch—took her! while gentle Goetzke sat in his office, among his papers and sybarites — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- Greek Sybarites, from Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in what is now southern Italy
- Sybarite (musician), the alias of New York electronic musician Xian Hawkins
- The Sybarites Ladies drinking and dining society of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- Sybarite (fashion doll), a 16" doll created by artists Desmond Lingard and Charles Fegen
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Sybaritic
- Of or having the qualities of a sybarite; self-indulgent or decadent
- 1985, His is a manly trade; sybaritic Rome, that is becoming effeminate, needs to see muscle at work, recalling more primitive glories. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
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