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The English word 'gourmet' comes to us (1820) from the French 'gourmet', altered from the Old French 'grommes' (plural), meaning "wine-tasters, wine merchant's servants" (of uncertain origin), then influenced by the Middle French 'gourmant' meaning "glutton".

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The word gourmet comes from the French language. Gourmet came from an Old French work that meant wine tasters.

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