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
In this age of universal gourmandise, hardly a celebrity in the U.S. will not confess to being a closet chef.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Our public monuments, it may be, are not so attractive as the pleasures of gourmandise, everywhere elaborated in Paris, a city essentially gourmand.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
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 Henry Austin
“I don’t think I’ll ever chaff him again about the gourmandising propensities of the Saxon race.”
From Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" by Gordon Stables
You don't think you fellows are going to be allowed to sit gourmandising here whilst we go hungry!'
From VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea by David Christie Murray
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