gourmand

Example Sentences

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So your giftee is a gourmand, a big-league griller, a hot-sauce head.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Melanie Martinez’s cult-favorite perfume, Cry Baby Milk, recently made a much-anticipated return, reigniting the passion for gourmand scents with its creamy blend of strawberry-milk and burnt caramel.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2025

Van Buren, the incumbent, was a gourmand and “loved all things French food,” said Bruce Kraig, author of “A Rich and Fertile Land: A History of Food in America.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

That novel features one of the most indelible characters in culinary fiction, a gourmand whom the author Marcel Rouff loosely based on the French culinary writer Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, born in 1755.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

This, from a man who had a reputation for being quite the gourmand, was telling in and of itself.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman