10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BON VIVEUR»
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World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions: A Resource for ...
Cf. bon viveur and boulevardier. bon viveur n., pl. bons viveurs or bon viveurs [Fr.
bon good (1); viveur fast/free liver (2): a good fast/free liver.] A person who lives a
high and fast life. A person who is socially active. A person who frequents ...
Gabriel Adeleye, Kofi Acquah-Dadzie, Thomas J. Sienkewicz, 1999
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Faux Pas: A No-nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases
BON VIVEUR bon vee-ver (French) 'pleasure-lover', 'man-about-town': An '
emotional' court hearing in London revealed the tangled love life of the screen-
writer and notorious bon viveur, who married three times and embarked on a love
affair ...
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Fabulous Fanny Cradock: TV's Outrageous Queen of Cuisine
TV's Outrageous Queen of Cuisine Clive Ellis. Fanny's first column in The Daily
Telegraph, in1949. nom de plume, but pedants ofher choice of Bon Viveur as.
BON. VIVEUR: A. CLEVER. MISTAKE? Fanny Cradock was rather proud a ...
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From Bonbon to Cha-cha: Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words ...
I In contemporary usage bon vivant and BON vIvEUR appear interchangeably in
a general sense of someone with a selfindulgent lifestyle (see quotation). 1996
Times Nor does it mean that the bon vivant has renounced his ways. 'Don't worry
...
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Garner's Modern American Usage
A. And ✳bon viveur (/bohn vee-vuur/). Both mean “a person who lives well, esp.
the companionable type who enjoys good wine and fine food.” Bon vivant is
standard in AmE and BrE. ✳Bon viveur, a form virtually unknown in AmE, is a BrE
...
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Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words
Perhaps because of its fake-Frenchness, bon viveur has a rather dated
naughtiness about it. Think of winks, nudges and twirled moustaches. An "
emotional" court hearing in London revealed the tangled love life of the screen-
writer and ...
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Concise English Dictionary
... of fashion: bon vivant (ve-vd) a jovial companion: one who lives well, esp. who
enjoys fine food; bon viveur (ve-vazr, not used in Fr.) a bon vivant. esp. a man-
about-town: bon voyage < wa-yazh) a good journey to you. bona fide bo'nafid,fi'
da, ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
noun French he was a bon viveur, savouring his food and especially his wine:
hedonist, pleasure seeker, pleasure lover, sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary;
epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand, gastronome, connoisseur; informal
foodie.
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Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity
We can judge the life of a crack addict to be a poorer human life than that of
either a carer in a leprosarium or judicious bon viveur without being able to rank
the carer's against the hedonist's. Incommensurability can be a transitive relation.
Maria Baghramian, Attracta Ingram, 2014
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Two Faces of Liberalism (Large Print 16pt)
That the value of goods cannot be compared is no bar to reasoning about them.
We can judge the life of a crack addict to be poorer than that of both a carer in a
leprosarium and a skilful bon viveur without being able to rank the carer's against
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BON VIVEUR»
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bon viveur is used in the context of the following news items.
Hugh MacDonald meets Henry Blofeld
... raconteur and a character whose innate blitheness of spirit would make him a bon viveur whether he was imbibing on the Strand or living in a ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
What will be the next issue that tears EU apart?
Navigating the crisis will fall to Mr Juncker, a bon viveur who last week complained that Greek talks had left him exhausted and unable to think ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Profile: Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
The bon viveur's team insists the dwarves are grateful recipients of his work ethic and jobs, in a country with high unemployment. Yet despite ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
On the trail of Jean Sibelius
That afternoon I travelled south to Helsinki, where Sibelius studied music, married and became a bon viveur – as well as a successful, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Annabel Elliot on raising money for her brother Mark Shand's …
A globe-trotting environ-mentalist and bon viveur, he was in New York in April 2014, dancing to the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction in a bright ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
Antonio Pappano: 'I haven't time to sit through The Ring'
All that travel has left him a bon viveur. “When not absorbed in music,” he says with a rub of the padding of his stomach, “I'm absorbed in the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
Sarah Brett: 'I love my job on Radio 5 Live but the best part of the …
... in traffic and missed a pre-record of an interview they were scheduled to conduct together with the wit and bon viveur that is Stephen Fry. «Belfast Telegraph, Jun 15»
All deaths great and small
Syd was a bon viveur, a genuine gourmet and something of a wine connoisseur. He ennobled that cliché, 'a legend in his own lunch time', ... «Eureka Street, Jun 15»
Pic: You learn something new about Marty Morrissey every day
We knew Marty was a GAA God, a ladies' man, a raconteur, a bon viveur and a damn nice fella... ...but we never had him pegged for an ... «JOE, Jun 15»
Adare glasshouse on the market for €1.85m in Limerick
IN the mid-19th Century, the Earl of Dunraven in Limerick, a bon viveur and big spender of vast appetites, got it into his head that his "big ... «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
