The vice of eating to excess.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.
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