Lover of comfort

Meaning

Lemma.

A sybarite is devoted to comfort and pleasurable refinements. Brotteaux earns the playful label when he chooses barn hay over a crowded bedroom and when he cools ordinary wine in his gutter. These modest arrangements preserve cultivated taste under reduced circumstances, rather than demonstrate an extravagant meal or the survival of his former wealth. The word describes a disposition toward pleasure; it should not replace the more specific philosophical label épicurien.