viveur

From French viveur.

viveur (plural viveurs)

1. Someone who lives well.

   "Walter Moyne was an extraordinary man, colossally rich, well-meaning, intelligent, scrupulous, yet a viveur ... he collected yachts, fish, monkeys and women." from Chips, the diaries of Sir Henry Channon. Edited by Robert Rhodes James. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1967.

From vive +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /vi.vœʁ/

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viveur m (plural viveurs)

1. debauchee

   Synonyms: débauché, fêtard, noceur

   • 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine:

     Tholomyès était un viveur de trente ans, mal conservé. Il était ridé et édenté; et il ébauchait une calvitie dont il disait lui-même sans tristesse: crâne à trente ans, genou à quarante.

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• bon viveur

• → English: viveur
• → Italian: viveur

• “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• “viveur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from French viveur.

viveur m (invariable)

1. viveur

• viveur in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from French viveur.

viveur m (plural viveuri)

1. bon vivant

• viveur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN