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esthete
[ es-theet ]
esthete
/ ɛsˈθɛtɪk; ˌiːsθɪˈtɪʃən; ˈiːsθiːt /
noun
- a US spelling of aesthete
Derived Forms
- esˈthetically, adverb
- esthetic, adjective
- esˈthetiˌcism, noun
- esˈthetics, noun
- esthetician, noun
Other Words From
- hyper·esthete noun
Example Sentences
Initially known simply as an esthete, Wilde hadn’t published much beyond some poems when he embarked on a lecture tour of the United States.
But she was not there to be entertained with the vacillations of a minor Victorian esthete.
Oscar Wilde, who wore his hair long like the esthete he was, was obliged to undergo the indignity of having it cut close, and wearing the sack-cloth suit bearing the broad-arrow mark of the convict.
The esthete or the connoisseur obtains from these agreeable sensations a pleasure unknown to the animals, and one that is not from its nature refractory to reason nor seductive to carnal excess.
I would be very pleased to make myself historian for these fine artists, these esthetes of muscular melody.
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