gourmandise
1 Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of gourmandise
From French; see origin at gormandize
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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
The ascent to gourmandise is no longer a matter of picking up a cookbook and buying a set of copper pots.
From Time Magazine Archive
He believes that because his own gourmandise was so legendary--he used to eat entire bowls of buttermilk dressing with his salads--he can persuade fellow bubbas to exercise and eat better.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now gardening chanced to be a perfect gourmandise in the Kurt family, so that the lad eventually adopted it as his profession.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
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
I suppose he’s thinking of his belly again, the gourmandising little beast!
From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry
Gargantua, a gigantic personage, in Rabelais, of preternally lusty appetite and guzzling and gourmandising power; lived several centuries, and begat Pantagruel.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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 Hichens, Robert Smythe
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