How To Use Bon vivant In A Sentence
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The emetic was a disgusting practice of Roman _bon vivants_ who were afraid of indigestion.] [Footnote 3: The verse which Cicero quotes from Lucilius is fairly equivalent to this.] [Footnote 4: Probably by way of salute; or possibly as a precaution.]
Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers
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He eats appreciatively after the manner of a _bon vivant; _ he uses his napkin gently and frequently; he glances blandly at the surroundings; watching him, you would suppose the viands were the choicest of the season, exquisitely prepared, while, in reality, they are poor and unsubstantial stuff, the refuse, perhaps, of better restaurants.
Fifth Avenue
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They were characterized as sots, bon vivants, and losers.
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In a pale grey suit and open-neck white shirt, Green revels in his persona as an old-school jetsetter, a bon vivant. - though he has been called combative businessman, even a bully.
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A bon vivant who piloted his own plane and hosted the Dutch royal family aboard his yacht, Something Cool, Freddy had an adman's pizzazz.
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On the contrary, the place was mostly packed, with elderly first-date couples and gaggles of neighborhood bon vivants out for a night on the town.
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There was a bit of mistral, certainly, and a scarcity of water in the summer, but no freezing garrets and plenty of artists, writers, and bon vivants.
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All of the sterotypical connections one can make, of deer killing type connoisseurs and aficionado's of the bon vivant may take a dis-like to the above forementioned preference of communication ... via the verb.
Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better?
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A bon vivant, Mr. Brown was known equally for his mannerliness, his fine wardrobe, his distinctive mustache and his wife — Helen Gurley Brown, the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine.
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Nor is a good mindreader necessarily a ‘people person’ - we all know backslapping bon vivants who are all but illiterate when it comes to reading the subtleties of social interaction.
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I would have doubted that there is, except for a very interesting bit of cobblestones-and-barricades talk masquerading as dark whimsey from our good friend and bon vivant Mark Morford in the San Francisco Chronicle also this grim Wednesday morning with the message "Eat the Rich", a title he swiped from Aerosmith (their song linked in his essay is worth listening to if you were born after 1935).
The Hundred Year Storm
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Buckley was a bon vivant with luxurious tastes, a prolific author of best-selling novels as well as serious nonfiction, a sportsman most gleeful on icy slopes and navigating through a gale, a world-class namedropper, a refined musicologist (and self-taught harpsichord player) and a lover of big words (a sesquipedalian, as he might say).
He Knew He Was Right
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The bon vivant in thin superposition over the hard expression of the classic bloodsucker.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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When he won, the elite questioned whether the college dropout was up to running the country and scoffed at his reputation as a bumbling public speaker, bon vivant and serial womanizer.
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Cole was an impeccable dresser, a natty bon vivant locked in a jet-setter's fashion sense.
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Four years older than John Peter of Bowhay, and seven older than Will, he was a bon vivant fond of dining and dicing: a suitable escort for his country cousins in Europe's most populous city.
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Assisting their cellar-master in creating this Frankenstein of brandies was the legendary cocktail historian, author and all-around bon vivant, David Wondrich.
Tony Sachs: Drinking The Past: New Spirits Recreate Vintage Tastes
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The landlord indeed spoke a little thick, and the texts of Mr. Thomas Trumbull stumbled on his tongue; but Nanty was one of those topers, who, becoming early what bon vivants term flustered, remain whole nights and days at the same point of intoxication; and, in fact, as they are seldom entirely sober, can be as rarely seen absolutely drunk.
Redgauntlet
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Seattle Bon Vivant recommends Le Palais des Thés green teas (packaged, in compressed tea blocks or loose in beautiful pots).
My Paris
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That didn't mean I began to live like an anchorite; far from it: I suppose I will always be true to my nature as a bon vivant.
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