symbel-gāl

symbel-gāl, adj: lustful with feasting. (SUEM-bell-GALL / ˈsym-bɛl-ˌgaːl)

charles_v_feast
The Performance of a Crusade Play at King Charles V’s Feast (detail), Master of the Coronation of Charles VI, Paris, about 1375–80. From Great Chronicles of France (Grandes chroniques de France). Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Ms. fr. 2813, fol. 473v. From Imagining the Culinary Past in France: Recipes for a Medieval Feast on The Getty Iris.

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