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gourmandise

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gour·man·dise  (grmn-dz)
n.
A taste and relish for good food: "You could see the gourmandise shining on his rosy lips" (Glenway Wescott).

[Middle English gromandise, gluttony, from Old French gormandise, from gormant, glutton.]

gourmandise [ˌgʊəmənˈdiːz], gormandize
n
a love of and taste for good food


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After June all the little Court Society of Pumpernickel used to separate, according to the German plan, and make for a hundred watering-places, where they drank at the wells, rode upon donkeys, gambled at the redoutes if they had money and a mind, rushed with hundreds of their kind to gourmandise at the tables d'hote, and idled away the summer.
 
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