gourmandise
1 Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of gourmandise
From French; see origin at gormandize
Example Sentences
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And her overriding obsession with gastronomy and wine can get tedious and, as Jan Morris commented, “may drive readers of less urbane gourmandise all the more readily to the deep-freeze Ocean Pie.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2021
Sukari chewed the leaves gamely, working her jaws with real gourmandise.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
Even Boston, home of the bean and the cod, has fallen prey to creeping gourmandise.
From Time Magazine Archive
On their way to gourmandise, a curious thing has happened to born-again American cooks: they have rediscovered the glorious raw ingredients and inimitable provincial dishes of their own country.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elsewhere the practice may be due to superstition in one form or another; among the Battas it is simply gourmandise.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle
In 1947, after a two-year courtship largely spent gourmandising, she married Martin Nidetch.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2015
The décor involves potted plants and hand-built bicycles from the owners’ bicycle brand named Goodspeed Bicycle Company — the perfect combo for outdoor-loving, gourmandising Canberrans who pick up their wheels in the cafe.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 2014
He saw himself gourmandising over the meals that Helen alone could cook.
From Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) by Arnold Bennett
I had naturally," says the Doctor, "a great antipathy against comfort-hunting and gourmandising, particularly on an expedition like ours....
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various
Mr. Smith cast his eyes round, and, observing that the little boys' faces were considerably flushed, and that an air of mere gourmandising had decidedly set in, suddenly became ascetic again.
From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens
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