Gormandise vs Gourmandise - What's the difference?
gormandise | gourmandise | Alternative forms |
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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Gourmandise is a alternative form of gormandise.
As verbs the difference between gormandise and gourmandise
is that gormandise is an alternative spelling of gourmandise while gourmandise is to eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.As a noun gourmandise is
gluttony.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.
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- 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.
