Excessive eating or a fondness for good food; the practice of indulging in luxury foods; gluttony.
From French 'gourmandise', derived from 'gourmand'. This variant spelling reflects French orthography and was sometimes used in English texts to refer to excessive eating or food obsession.
This word shows how English borrowed not just the French concept but even kept the French spelling—kind of like how we say 'café' instead of inventing 'coffee-shop' (though we did invent that too).
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