viveur

English

viveur (plural viveurs)

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.

viveur m (plural viveurs)

debauchee
- 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. (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, t. 1, 1862)

“viveur” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

viveur m (invariable)

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