gourmet

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Of food: high in quality and carefully prepared.

   We went to the gourmet shop to find rare ingredients for the recipe.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who knows a lot about good food and drink and enjoys them.

   As a true gourmet, he could name every spice in the dish.

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.

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