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gourmet

[goor-mey, goor-mey] / gʊərˈmeɪ, ˈgʊər meɪ /


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Moreover, he’s a chess-playing, gourmet cooking, crime fiction aficionado and jazz lover equally comfortable on the mean streets of East Daygo and in the lush life of La Jolla Farms estates.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2026

Customers are often greeted with Champagne and caviar and pampered with gourmet meals and massage treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

At the heart of the dwelling is an enormous great room, which opens up to a formal dining room—complete with its own wine cellar—as well as a gourmet kitchen with “premium appliances” and custom cabinetry.

From MarketWatch Jun. 8, 2026

In May 2017 he spent £84.95 on five packs of gourmet beans and £123.91 on five packs of roasted beans.

From BBC May 25, 2026

Miri brought in these red-velvet cupcakes that she said were gourmet but really tasted exactly like the store mix Mom uses when she doesn’t have time to bake.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

The floating ships in the fantasy role-playing game Honkai: Star Rail are populated with traders, gourmets and literati who surf their texts on jade abacuses.

From New York Times Oct. 22, 2023

So the years that followed brought a concerted effort to record and preserve Italian foodways, but the link to thousand-year-old traditions that gourmets are always invoking was still missing from the picture.

From Salon Jan. 4, 2023

In Brussels, the epicenter of the EU, restaurant owners have imagined how a future without gas and electricity would look like for gourmets.

From Seattle Times Sep. 30, 2022

But even gourmets, churning out flavors like matcha and rose water, can’t break my attachment to Carvel.

From Washington Post Feb. 12, 2018

It contained, in particular, a national soup called “borchtch,” prepared with sour milk, which I would carefully refrain from recommending to the gourmets of the Twentieth Century.

From The Adventures of a Special Correspondent by Jules Verne




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