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Luxury

noun

(pl. luxuries)

Something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity.

The quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive. Synonyms: lavishness, sumptuosity, sumptuousness.

Wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living. Synonyms: luxuriousness, opulence, sumptuousness.

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... to the level of biribi; his luxury and extravagance caused him to be distrusted; it was known that he was head over ears in debt, and the king could not banish the fear that he would be cheated in spite of the keenness ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... thing we do learn from them: Our Crown-Prince, escaping the paternal vigilance, was secretly in consultation with Dickens, or with Hotham through Dickens; and this in the most tragic humor on his side. In such effulgences of luxury and scenic grandeur, how sad an attendant is Black Care,—nay foul misusage, not to be borne by human nature! Accurate Professor Ranke has read somewhere,—does not comfortably say where, nor comfortably give the least date,—this passage, ...

— History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 • Thomas Carlyle

... yet cling to the wistful liberalism of Earth label us conformists if they will. I say to you that until Mars is won for humanity, we cannot afford the luxury of nonconformity. ...

— Rebels of the Red Planet • Charles Louis Fontenay

... Your Lordships with a Description of your own Country, for the most part, in her Natural Dress, and therefore less vitiated with Fraud and Luxury. A Country, whose Inhabitants may enjoy a Life of the greatest Ease and Satisfaction, and pass away ...

— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson

... on the imaginative faculties of the designers of that day by the metal-workers, the gold and silversmiths, the jewellers, and all connected with such decorative manufactures as the luxury of wealth and taste calls into exertion. The name of Cellini stands prominently forth as the inventor and fabricator of much that was remarkable; the pages of his singular autobiography detail the peculiar beauty of many of his designs; the Viennese collection still boasts some of the ...

— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt

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