Gourmandise

Full definition of gourmandise

1843, Thomas Carlyle, , book 3, ch. IV, HappyA benevolent old Surgeon sat once in our company, with a Patient fallen sick by gourmandising, whom he had just, too briefly in the Patientâ€™s judgment, been examining.
2000, Frank McLynn, Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution, Pimlico (2001), ISBN 9780712666770, page 2:Even as the envoys from Europe, Japan, Latin America and the United States gourmandised their way through the eight savoury courses served on silver plates and the two dessert courses brought in on plates of solid gold, their ears were bombarded by the multiple counterpoint and polyphony of sixteen bands in Mexico City's main square or ZÃ³calo below.
2008, Neville Phillips, The Stage Struck Me!, Matador (2008), ISBN 9781906510435, page 146:but there was no cream, no butter, no foie gras, no soufflÃ©s, no beef fillet steaks, no rich sauces or runny cheeses such as I had been gourmandising on for a whole week â€“ not to mention the many bottles of champagne, wine and brandy.

Borrowing from fr gourmandise

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