I HAVE looked through various dictionaries for the word gourmandise and have found no translation that suited me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

In matters of gourmandise I am content wi 'little and cantie wi' mair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference

Her first book, Une gourmandise, has been translated into twelve languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muriel Barbery biography] Reference

The New Larousse Gastronomique is an encyclopedia of food that defines the French concept of gourmandise.    From Wordnik.com.  [JOIE DE VIVRE] Reference

I said, “My dear Professor, how comes it that you, who have every feature of gourmandise, are not a gourmand?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference

Bon c bien quand meme que j'sois gourmand parce que comme j'ressens pas la sensation de faim j'sais po a quoi j'ressemblerai si j'mangeais pas sans gourmandise.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

Quite the contrary: the low-carb requirement seems to have stimulated the creativity of cooks everywhere, and in our house of gourmandise no one has ever been bored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference

“I observe with pride, that gourmandise and coquettery, the two great modifications which society has effected in our imperious wants, are both of French origin.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.] Reference

Before becoming a literary sensation in 2007, Barbery had published Une gourmandise (to be published in 2009 by Europa Editions), a novel that was awarded the Bacchus-Bsn Prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Muriel Barbery by Viviana Musumeci, April 15 2008] Reference

As his other powers passed away, his gourmandise increased.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

"Oh, if I was permitted a vice it would be the gourmandise!".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Horse's Tale] Reference

Among the friends of gourmandise are many very devout persons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Were nations grateful, to what rather than to gourmandise should.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

They were completely oblivious of social gourmandise, which unites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Look at gourmandise under any aspect you please, and it deserves praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

The persons predestined to gourmandise are in general of medium stature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Singers also are proverbially prone to gourmandise; and though the Bird of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Duke] Reference

I have already referred to these categories of gourmandise destroyed by time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

In consequence of this perfection, gourmandise is the exclusive apanage of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

This week was gourmandise, a word that has no equivalent in the English language.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Home with Kim Vallee] Reference

When gourmandise is shared with another, it has the greatest influence on conjugal happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

I am to dine on Thursday with the Fishmongers 'Company, the first company for gourmandise in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

I said, "My dear Professor, how comes it that you, who have every feature of gourmandise, are not a gourmand?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

In a chapter written for the purpose, the advantages France derived from gourmandise in 1815, were fully explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Let us speak for a moment of that crowd of preparers who every year leave France, to instruct foreign nations in gourmandise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

While they and those who enjoy them are abominated, gourmandise assumes an altogether different aspect, and becomes almost theological.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Our public monuments, it may be, are not so attractive as the pleasures of gourmandise, everywhere elaborated in Paris, a city essentially gourmand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Financiers are the heroes of gourmandise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Physiology of Taste] Reference

Quelle divine gourmandise ….    From Wordnik.com.  [foodbeam » Juste pour le plaisir… – Plaisir sucré et Pierre Hermé] Reference

'A gourmandise, 'says Slylvain Pitiot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decanter News] Reference

La gourmandise.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters] Reference