Meaning & use
gourmet
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Relating to or suitable for people with a refined taste for fine food and drink.
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The restaurant specializes in gourmet burgers made with locally sourced ingredients.
She treated herself to a gourmet meal for her birthday.
A note on using this word
Gourmet comes from French, originally referring to a wine merchant's assistant who tasted wine to judge its quality.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A person with a refined and discriminating palate for fine food and drink.
As a gourmet, she could identify the subtlest hints of saffron in the dish.
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