Vocabulary Word
Word: gourmand
Definition: epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink
Definition: epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink
Sentences Containing 'gourmand'
I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.
Look at your knife-handle, there, my civilized and enlightened gourmand dining off that roast beef, what is that handle made of?--what but the bones of the brother of the very ox you are eating?
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