fem. bonne vivante. One fond of good living; a gourmand.

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1798.  Mar. & R. L. Edgeworth, Pract. Educ. (1822), I. 357. The sympathy of bon vivants is … very lively and sincere towards each other.

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1824.  Byron, Juan, XV. lxiv. But though a ‘bonne vivante’ … Her stomach’s not her peccant part.

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1862.  Fraser’s Mag., July, 46. He was also a bon-vivant, a diner-out, and a story-teller.

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  See BONAIR, BONALLY, BON-BON, BONCHIEF, BONGRACE, BONGRE, BONHOMIE, BONHOMME; cf. BONNE.

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