Meanings of foreign luxuries in English

They had kept the merchants from their borders with their foreign luxuries.

An extensive trade with Cyprus, Crete, and other Mediterranean Islands introduced many foreign luxuries.

We had no such foreign luxuries as those, Mr. Dexter, at home in the North.

Their wealth became a curse to them when foreigners came in with foreign vices and foreign luxuries.

We must not be deceived by mere borrowings of exotic things or momentary appreciations of foreign luxuries.

He could even feast his neighbors and servants after shearing day with new-fangled foreign luxuries like dates, mace, raisins, currants, and sugar.

And as the towns grew in size, the prosperous citizens proved to be the best customers for foreign luxuries, and foreign trade grew apace.

He purchases for his laborers the least possible amount of manufactured articles, and he wastes his own expenditure in the purchase of foreign luxuries.

Foreign luxuries, in a word, were rife among them.