Convivialist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person of convivial habits.
  2. 2
    A person who drinks alcohol. archaic

    "Herman Melville (1857), chapter 2, in The Confidence-Man, page 10: “…there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and foreigners; men of business and men of pleasure;…teetotalers and convivialists…”"

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"Herman Melville (1857), chapter 2, in The Confidence-Man, page 10: “…there was no lack of variety. Natives of all sorts, and foreigners; men of business and men of pleasure;…teetotalers and convivialists…”"

Etymology

From convivial + -ist.

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