Crossword clues for bon vivant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bon vivant \Bon" vi`vant"\; pl. Bons vivants. [F. bon good + vivant, p. pr. of vivre to live.] A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bon-vivant, "one fond of good living," 1690s, French (see bon); the fem. is bonne vivante.
Wiktionary
n. a person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink; a man about town
WordNet
n. a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink) [syn: epicure, gourmet, gastronome, epicurean, foodie]
Usage examples of "bon vivant".
But her husband, who is a garmentdistrict executive, sure looks like a bon vivant.
I know he is a bon vivant because while she was away buying a diet soda, he put my card in the pocket of his beach jacket and said, I cant do anything here, but Ill call you when I get back to New York.
Pitt didn't feel like a Good Samaritan and even less like a bon vivant as he punched out the numbers on the phone.
Hazel d'Ark, pirate, clonelegger and bon vivant, strode scowling through the dimly lit steel corridors and wished she was somewhere else.
Dumas was a bon vivant who did everything out in the open, to the great enjoyment and shock of all those around him.
But unlike the exotic beauties who hung on fiction's bon vivant master spy, Toshie possessed a high order of intellectual ability.
One moment he was a well-dressed bon vivant, the next an animated corpse.
Willie was now a man of the world, a bon vivant, as he ordered ham and eggs from the pretty waitress of The Elite Restaurant on Broadway.