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gourmet

/goor-mey, goor-mey/US // gʊərˈmeɪ, ˈgʊər meɪ //UK // (ˈɡʊəmeɪ, French ɡurmɛ) //

美食家,美食,美食者,美食家们

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a connoisseur of fine food and drink; epicure.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or characteristic of a gourmet, especially in involving or purporting to involve high-quality or exotic ingredients and skilled preparation: gourmet meals; gourmet cooking.
    • : elaborately equipped for the preparation of fancy, specialized, or exotic meals: a gourmet kitchen.

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Examples

  • While we wait for the winds to change, I keep turning to Heidi’s gourmet yet simple recipes for comfort.

  • When I spent a week there with friends in early March, I wasn’t expecting much more than a wood-fired stove, but I was pleasantly surprised by all of the gourmet food.

  • The connected brewers also showed that people were drinking much more premium coffee, perhaps because when you’re not getting a $3 cup at Starbucks, you’re fine spending 70¢ on a gourmet K-Cup.

  • Pick up a gourmet bakery treat at Rene’s Bakery just across the trail.

  • Ice cream machines can deliver gourmet quality ice cream for less than pricey store-bought pints, and are simple to use.

  • Neither is appealing in a world of easy-to-find gourmet fare.

  • Finally, an answer to that long-burning question: Where can we watch foodie hamsters devour gourmet miniature burritos?

  • His lyrical word play contains rhymes about gourmet food more often than not.

  • Epicurious's iPad app is way better than the website, or the Gourmet cookbook.

  • But there is a pool, gourmet buffet spreads; it is its own perfect place, in a way.

  • No true gourmet would ever send this warbler to the shambles so long as scarcer birds might be obtained.

  • On birthdays and other auspicious occasions dishes appeared which would tempt a gourmet.

  • The cannibal advertiser evidently is a gourmet, for he is particular as to age, and never eats them married.

  • Jimmy's a gourmet when he orders at the Pump Room and he's trying to overawe you.

  • You are a gourmet, you know better about these things than I do, eh?