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
- : 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.
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