Gluttonous vs Gourmandise - What's the difference?
gluttonous | gourmandise |
And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws. * 1611 — (w), 11:19 *: Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), *: The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly ... and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly" content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid. * 1891 — (Walt Whitman), Book xvii *: Do the feasters gluttonous feast? * 1914 — , *: Look your last on your dearest ones,
Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
Swift they go to the ravenous guns,
The gluttonous guns of War. * 1929 — , *: One day the mail-man found no village there,
Nor were its folk or houses seen again;
People came out from Aylesbury to stare -
Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain
That he was mad for saying he had spied
The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide. To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IV, ''Happy
* 2000 , Frank McLynn, Villa and Zapata: A Biography of the Mexican Revolution , Pimlico (2001), ISBN 9780712666770,
* 2008 , Neville Phillips, The Stage Struck Me! , Matador (2008), ISBN 9781906510435,
gluttony
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As an adjective gluttonous
is given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.As a verb gourmandise is
to eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.As a noun gourmandise is
gluttony.gluttonous
English
Quotations
{{timeline, 1600s=1607 1611, 1800s=1854 1891, 1900s=1914 1929}} * 1607 — (William Shakespeare), iii 4 *: Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws. * 1611 — (w), 11:19 *: Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), *: The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly ... and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly" content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid. * 1891 — (Walt Whitman), Book xvii *: Do the feasters gluttonous feast? * 1914 — , *: Look your last on your dearest ones,
Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
Swift they go to the ravenous guns,
The gluttonous guns of War. * 1929 — , *: One day the mail-man found no village there,
Nor were its folk or houses seen again;
People came out from Aylesbury to stare -
Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain
That he was mad for saying he had spied
The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.
gourmandise
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* gormandise * gourmandize * gormandizeVerb
(gourmandis)- A benevolent old Surgeon sat once in our company, with a Patient fallen sick by gourmandising , whom he had just, too briefly in the Patient’s judgment, been examining.
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- 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 Zócalo below.
page 146:
- but there was no cream, no butter, no foie gras, no soufflés, no beef fillet steaks, no rich sauces or runny cheeses such as I had been gourmandising on for a whole week – not to mention the many bottles of champagne, wine and brandy.