Gormandise

Word GORMANDISE
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What do we mean by gormandise?

To eat food in a gluttonous manner; to gorge; to make a pig of oneself.

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The word "gormandise" in example sentences

And so, when I came suddenly upon similar phrases in the writings of another, that is to say stripped of their familiar accompaniment of scruples and repressions and self-tormentings, I was free to indulge to the full my own appetite for such things, just as a cook who, once in a while, has no dinner to prepare for other people, can then find time to gormandise himself. ❋ Unknown (2003)

In Scotland likewise they have given themselves (of late years to speak of) unto very ample and large diet, wherein as for some respect nature doth make them equal with us, so otherwise they far exceed us in over much and distemperate gormandise, and so ingross their bodies that divers of them do oft become unapt to any other purpose than to spend their times in large tabling and belly cheer. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

Normans, misliking the gormandise of Canutus, ordained after their arrival that no table should be covered above once in the day, which ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)

The Normans, misliking the gormandise of Canutus, ordained after their arrival that no table should be covered above once in the day, which Huntingdon imputeth to their avarice; but in the end, either waxing weary of their own frugality, or suffering the cockle of old custom to overgrow the good corn of their new constitution, they fell to such liberty that in often-feeding they surmounted Canutus surnamed the Hardy. ❋ Unknown (1909)

If it be natural for a poor man to murder and rob, in order to make himself comfortable, it is no less natural for a rich man to gormandise and domineer, in order to have the full use of his riches. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)

A family of rich people in the country, apart from intellectual interests, is apt to gormandise; and the Maverings always sat down to a luxurious table, which was most abundant and tempting at the meal they called tea, when the invention of the Portuguese man-cook was taxed to supply the demands of appetites at once eager and fastidious. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Once a year, at the village club dinner, they gormandise to repletion. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)

After a successful catch all the dwellers in the tent gormandise on the killed animal, and appear to find a special pleasure in making their faces and hands as bloody as possible. ❋ Alexander Leslie (1866)

So her Grace selected something from each dish herself, and despatched it to Sidonia by her maid; but the maiden would none of them, and sent all back with a message that she had no heart to gormandise and feast; but her Grace might send her some bread and water, which was alone fitting for a poor prisoner to receive. ❋ Wilhelm Meinhold (1824)

What, you wish to get into my house to gormandise and swill at my expense. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

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