gormandizer

Example Sentences

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The “lunch” turned out to be a seven course dinner and each course introduced such an enticing and unusual dish that every member of the party became an audacious gormandizer.

From Aunt Jane?s Nieces on the Ranch by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate.

From Omega, the Man by Morey, Leo

The Mantis is that gormandizer, the Empusa that ascetic.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The Frenchman is ravenous for the theatrical situation,—a perfect gormandizer of the dramatic event.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore

The prospectus said that the best and most wholesome food would be served out to us in abundance, and to look at the bill of fare one would think it enough to satisfy any gormandizer.

From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Weitemeyer, Thorvald