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gourmandise

/goor-muhn-deez/US // ˌgʊər mənˈdiz //UK // (ˌɡʊəmənˈdiːz) //

饕餮美食,饕餮盛宴,美食,商品

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : unrestrained enjoyment of fine foods, wines, and the like.

Examples

  • We can revel in it, gourmandise on it, smack our lips over it, and the more we get of it the better we shall be.

  • Elsewhere the practice may be due to superstition in one form or another; among the Battas it is simply gourmandise.

  • The baronet's eulogium on his friend's taste in gourmandise was well and justly merited.

  • Gourmandise, or the love of good eating, here the one and only concern, is opposed to excess.

  • I have consulted the dictionaries under the word gourmandise, and am by no means satisfied with what I find.