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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "gourmand" in a sentence

    gourmand example sentences

    gourmand


    1. The gourmand Zeerovers looked dully at the white city


    2. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal? 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


    3. But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? and that is adding insult to injury, is it? 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? And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl


    4. Probably before a year is out crocodiles will be brought in hundreds to replace this first one, lost in the stomach of a Petersburg gourmand


    5. The general finished by informing him that Evgenie’s uncle was head of one of the civil service departments, and rich, very rich, and a gourmand


    6. She was slight of build, perhaps not yet fully developed, with the early ripeness of the Eastern beauty expressed in face and figure— a black cherry, at sight of which the mouth of such a gourmand as the Ritter von Wallishausen would naturally water! Her fine face seemed meant only to be the setting of her two black eyes


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    Synonyms for "gourmand"

    glutton gourmand gourmandizer trencherman epicurean epicure gourmet

    "gourmand" definitions

    a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess