impecuniary

Updated: May 5, 2025

Many an impecuniary epicure has gloated over his locked-up warrant for future wealth, as a means of realizing the dream of his namesake in the "Alchemist": My footboy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, Knots, goodwits, lampreys.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864