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語源

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 中期英語 grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from 古期英語 *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to 古期英語 grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ɡʊɹˈmeɪ/, /ˈɡʊɹmeɪ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡʊəmeɪ/, /ˈɡɔːmeɪ/
• 韻: -eɪ

形容詞

gourmet (not comparable)

1. (of food and drink) Fine; of superior quality. [from 1820]

   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.

   • 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Jules (Samuel Jackson):

     [On the coffee] Mmm! God damn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit!

使用する際の注意点

Gourmet has become somewhat debased by marketing usage, and is considered by some a pretentious middlebrow term. Such users tend to prefer terms such as artisanal (emphasizing the craft) for fine food.

等位語

• artisanal

派生語

名詞

gourmet (plural gourmets)

1. A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.

使用する際の注意点

Gourmet emphasizes interest in quality of food and enjoyment of eating, sometimes to an obsessive degree: someone who “lives to eat rather than eating to live”. By contrast, a gourmand is someone more interested in quantity of food than quality of food.

同意語

• foodie
• gourmand

参考

• gourmand
• haute cuisine