gastronome
noun
a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
gastronomer
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a variation of
gastronome.
Example Sentences
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Charles excelled as a wit and a critic; Gallienus as a poet and a gastronomer.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
At first some rich and zealous gastronomer will establish periodical assemblies, in which the most learned theorists will unite with artists, to discuss and measure the various branches of alimentation.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
"Alas! how much I am to be pitied," said the elegiac voice of a gastronomer of the royal court of the Seine.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
Think of astronomy, and that'll give you gastronomy; and a gastronomer is a deipnosophist.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
Strange, too, that it should be so, since I do not recall its ever contributing the first mouthful to my pleasures as a schoolboy gastronomer.
From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey
