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gourmand
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess [syn: glutton , trencherman ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Cleo knew their sedate yet sumptuous soirées were always peppered with gourmand bishops. ▪ Still, there was enough at John Mortimer's book launch last week to satisfy the most exacting social gourmand .
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A gourmand is a person who takes great pleasure and interest in consuming good food and drink. A gourmand has also been defined as a person who is "a glutton for food and drink", a person who eats and drinks excessively.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gourmand \Gour"mand\, n. [F.] A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton. See Gormand . That great gourmand, fat Apicius. --B. Jonson.
Usage examples of gourmand.
One day we happened to be eating woodcock, and I could not help praising the dish in the style of the true gourmand.
I was a great gourmand, the worthy Ambrose had felt it his duty to give me some ragouts, which were as bad as can well be imagined.
Gorgones voraces, gourmands de raies, harpyies, coureurs de vieilles, impurs, puant le bouc, destructeurs de poissons.
But, seeing that the thin veneer of modesty with which every woman of the world is furnished goes but a very little way below the surface, they began rather to enjoy this unedifying episode, and at bottom were hugely delighted-- feeling themselves in their element, furthering the schemes of lawless love with the gusto of a gourmand cook who prepares supper for another.
Since Watier had selected the dinner menu and the French chef Labourie had prepared the food, his guests would sup like royalty, enjoying various European delicacies the two gourmands had ordered from the Continent.
He had not been hungry, not with twenty kilos of dogmeat in his belly, but the odors of Schreiner food would titillate a gourmand of any species.
These five girls were like five dishes placed before a gourmand, who enjoys them one after the other.
Just to think of a party of these unnatural gourmands taking it into their heads to make a convivial meal of a poor devil, who would have no means of escape or defence: however, there was no help for it.
Passepartout, who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes-- a fruit as large as good-sized apples, of a dark-brown colour outside and a bright red within, and whose white pulp, melting in the mouth, affords gourmands a delicious sensation--was waiting for them on deck.
Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.
The baron, a fat man, was a gamester, a gourmand, and a lover of wine.
He was a kind of clown without the paint, fond of a joke, a regular gourmand, and a man of great experience.
The Japanese consider Fugu sashimi an exquisite delicacy that, properly prepared, will cause one's lips to tingle, one's senses to soar, and produces a pleasant near-death experience for the adventurous gourmand.
He was pale and even turning down food—a sure sign of extreme unwellness for the French gourmand.