trenchermen

Unfortunately for said member and his fellow trenchermen, the age of deference is, as they themselves are fond of telling us, well and truly over.

From The Eatanswill Gazette 2008

Unfortunately for said member and his fellow trenchermen, the age of deference is, as they themselves are fond of telling us, well and truly over.

Archive 2008-01-20 2008

The waiters are supposed to work quietly during performances but this was a hungry bunch of trenchermen who made a racket when they ate, gorging on sirloins, barbecued ribs, lobster tails, spaghetti and chicken livers, and more or less thrashing their way through a Mister Kelly specialty, the green goddess salad.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The waiters are supposed to work quietly during performances but this was a hungry bunch of trenchermen who made a racket when they ate, gorging on sirloins, barbecued ribs, lobster tails, spaghetti and chicken livers, and more or less thrashing their way through a Mister Kelly specialty, the green goddess salad.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

The waiters are supposed to work quietly during performances but this was a hungry bunch of trenchermen who made a racket when they ate, gorging on sirloins, barbecued ribs, lobster tails, spaghetti and chicken livers, and more or less thrashing their way through a Mister Kelly specialty, the green goddess salad.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

America has the most-regulated food in the developed world, yet it also has the fattest people in the world — with the exception of the hearty trenchermen of Nauru and a few other dots in the Pacific.

Tastemaker With a Sweet Tooth 2004

America has the most-regulated food in the developed world, yet it also has the fattest people in the world — with the exception of the hearty trenchermen of Nauru and a few other dots in the Pacific.

Tastemaker With a Sweet Tooth 2004

We did indeed find the best in town, and ate like a pair of trenchermen with a spread of butterfly shrimp and fries and a lobster tail to die for.

outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2005

Therefore, both dry and hungry souls, pot and trenchermen, fully enjoying those books, perusing, quoting them in their merry conventicles, and observing the great mysteries of which they treat, shall gain a singular profit and fame; as in the like case was done by Alexander the Great with the books of prime philosophy composed by Aristotle.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Therefore, both dry and hungry souls, pot and trenchermen, fully enjoying those books, perusing, quoting them in their merry conventicles, and observing the great mysteries of which they treat, shall gain a singular profit and fame; as in the like case was done by Alexander the Great with the books of prime philosophy composed by Aristotle.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002