Definitions
a person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment (especially good food and drink)
Word origin
Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Used in a sentence
“We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.”
“The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.”
“[On the coffee] Mmm! God damn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Refined food lover”7 letters
02“Fine-food lover”7 letters
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