Gourmet

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early 19th century: French, originally meaning ‘wine taster’, influenced by gourmand.

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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 Middle English grom, grome(“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōma(“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan(“to grow”). More at groom.

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gourmet (n.)

"connoisseur in eating and drinking," 1820, from French gourmet, altered (by influence of gourmant "glutton") from Old French groume, originally "wine-taster, wine merchant's servant" (in 13c. "a lad generally"), a word of uncertain origin. As an adjective from 1900. Compare groom (n.1). For sense distinction, see gourmand.