英语词汇gourmet的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gourmet. The first gourmet was a groumet, “a horse groom.” The word changed to gourmet in French and was applied to grooms and any minor servants in a household. Among these servants were boys who tasted wine, and such wine tasters, or gourmets, were given the same name when they worked as as- sistants in wine shops. Eventually the wine-shop gourmets be- came connoisseurs of fine wines and food in general, giving us the gourmet we know today. The word is not recorded in En- glish until 1820.

词汇	gourmet
词源	gourmet. The first gourmet was a groumet, “a horse groom.” The word changed to gourmet in French and was applied to grooms and any minor servants in a household. Among these servants were boys who tasted wine, and such wine tasters, or gourmets, were given the same name when they worked as as- sistants in wine shops. Eventually the wine-shop gourmets be- came connoisseurs of fine wines and food in general, giving us the gourmet we know today. The word is not recorded in En- glish until 1820.
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