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Gourmet   /gˈʊrmˌeɪ/   Listen
Gourmet

noun
1.
A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink).  Synonyms: bon vivant, epicure, epicurean, foodie, gastronome.





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"Gourmet" Quotes from Famous Books



... gourmet. French cooks and French prices are not the rule at his restaurant. His beer or his inexpensive native white wine he prefers to the most costly clarets or champagnes. And, indeed, it is well for him he does; for ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome
... more affect him than a marble monument. He seemed to accommodate his conversation to the moral structure of others, just as spirits are said to assume the shape of mortals. There were the sensualities of the gourmet for his body, and there ended his human nature, as it seemed to me. Through that semi-transparent structure I thought I could now and then discern the light or the glare of his inner life. But I ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu


Words linked to "Gourmet" :   sensualist, epicurean


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