gormand
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- gormandism noun
Example Sentences
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There is a natural desire to retain the delicious fruit for full mastication; there is no such desire, except in the trained gormand, for the retention of animal substance.
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Gormand, older form of gourmand.—v.i.
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An unfortunate gormand seized it, and was soon placed with the other finny captives.
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Gourmand—gōōr�m�nd, not g�r�mand, unless the orthography gormand is used.
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Seeing this rotund monk with his shining face, his vast abdomen, standing on this pedestal of comestibles which he watched with the eye of a gormand, one would have called him the genius of good cheer.
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