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- verb Present participle of
gourmandise .
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Examples
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On the whole the language is easy, and suitable for young children, but just occasionally a word slips in such as "gourmandising", which would need explaining to a child.
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A man had administered a severe whipping to the slave in attendance on him, and when Socrates asked: “Why he was so wroth with his own serving-man?” excused himself on the ground that “the fellow was a lazy, gourmandising, good-for-nothing dolt — fonder of money than of work.”
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Contains scenes of gratuitous gourmandising in Paris...
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Belgium - a weekend's gourmandising in Bruges with the gathered clans of cix:gourmet.
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To be sure, so-called Italian cookbooks compiled by aggressive restaurateurs, weary professional cook-book writers, or gourmandising tourists appear more frequently than one would wish.
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Colonel Ellis, sir, was a noted authority in all matters relating to gourmandising and his opinion was especially respected with regard to the quality of wines.
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You don't think you fellows are going to be allowed to sit gourmandising here whilst we go hungry! '
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Mr. Smith cast his eyes round, and, observing that the little boys 'faces were considerably flushed, and that an air of mere gourmandising had decidedly set in, suddenly became ascetic again.
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Furious card-playing, gourmandising, drinking, endless conversations about the same things, futile activities and conversations taking up the best part of the day and all the best of a man's forces, leaving only a stunted, wingless life, just rubbish; and to go away and escape was impossible -- one might as well be in a lunatic asylum or in prison with hard labour.
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A man had administered a severe whipping to the slave in attendance on him, and when Socrates asked: "Why he was so wroth with his own serving-man?" excused himself on the ground that "the fellow was a lazy, gourmandising, good-for-nothing dolt -- fonder of money than of work."
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