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Definition of Gourmandism
1. Noun. The disposition and habits of a gourmand.
Definition of Gourmandism
1. Noun. A passion for and deep interest in good food. ¹
2. Noun. gluttony ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gourmandism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gourmandism
Literary usage of Gourmandism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"... gourmandism have run riot. Special forms of sexual vice have at several times
and places wrought their devastations, and cock fights, falcon hunt- ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"cheating us into gourmandism by the trick of deceit ! Oh, what would I give to
be as young again ! to be soaring up to heaven, as I listened with closed ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"Thinking of Jos Sedley and his gourmandism, of the pine-apples he brought home
for tiffin to Russell Square, and the chilis he feelingly recommended to his ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society by American Antiquarian Society (1902)
"All the more elegant dissipations of club life have promptly found their way into
academic circles, and conviviality and gourmandism have run riot. ..."
5. The Cornhill Magazine by George Smith (1867)
"Cheating us into gourmandism by the trick of deceit ! Oh, what would I give to
be as young again ! To be soaring up to heaven, as I listened with closed ..."
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