devoted to the table

devoted to the table
   gluttonous
   Not merely fond of a piece of furniture:
    Heavily overweight, [Joffre] was devoted to the table and allowed nothing, even at the height of the crisis in 1914, to interrupt lunch. (Keegan, 1998)

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