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Meanings of luxuriousness in English

Portuguese
luxo
Catalan
opulència
Spanish
lujo

Wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living.

        luxo
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        Examples for "luxury"
        Examples for "luxury"
        1
        Without Labor, Capital would starve; without Capital, Labor could live in luxury.
        Born Again
        2
        A small group of family owned businesses dominated the luxury fashion industry.
        Radio NZ
        3
        Intelligence must therefore have a purpose; it cannot be an expensive luxury.
        The Red Queen
        4
        I hope such luxury allows me to focus deeply on work .
        The South African
        5
        Large back gardens are a luxury seldom available in a new house.
        The Irish Times
        1
        The difference between poverty and opulence in the business of song-writing is-whistling
        Writing for Vaudeville
        2
        Everything in the apartment indicated a man of opulence and of expense.
        The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
        3
        Decabalus's tent was huge and its opulence spoke of his great achievements.
        Imperatrix
        4
        Nations, like individuals, generally do better in moderate circumstances than in opulence.
        Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
        5
        It oozes opulence, in the way luxury hotels must and even should.
        The Irish Times
        1
        Some of them are almost palatial in size and sumptuousness of arrangement.
        Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
        2
        Her house was magnificent, her private apartments almost stifling in their sumptuousness.
        The Californians
        3
        Garrick took pride in their sumptuousness, in their immaculate, virginal splendour.
        Americans and Others
        4
        The first impression made by the Medici frescoes is their sumptuousness.
        A Wanderer in Florence
        5
        His brother, Chantonnay, reproached him with the sumptuousness and disorder of his establishment.
        The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
        Usage of luxuriousness in English
        1
        Marsh's quick eye took in the luxuriousness of the furnishings-andsomething more.
        The Sheridan Road Mystery
        2
        Have a care, child, that this is not luxuriousness of the senses.
        On the Frontier
        3
        His songs abound in warmth of expression, simplicity of sentiment, and luxuriousness of fancy.
        The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volumes 1-6. / The Songs of Scotla...
        4
        There is a luxuriousness and exotic voluptuousness about the flowers that causes instant attraction.
        The Irish Times
        5
        She undressed with a certain sense of luxuriousness and pleasure.
        A Sweet Girl Graduate
        6
        In the tenement kitchen, the luxuriousness of goose fat elevated the most prosaic ingredients.
        97 orchard: an edible history of five immigrant families in one ...
        7
        The dainty voluptuousness in a "Serenade" kindles with the luxuriousness of the South.
        Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir
        8
        They were amazed by the luxuriousness of the ship.
        Gold in the Sky
        9
        Four automobiles completed the luxuriousness of the family.
        The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
        10
        One woman who lives a few blocks away marveled at the luxuriousness of Strauss-Kahn's living arrangements.
        Reuters
        11
        The conveyance that met them at the station had all the dignity and luxuriousness of a private carriage.
        When God Laughs, and Other Stories
        12
        With the advance of civilization the peoples change their mode of life from simplicity to luxuriousness and complexity.
        Maintaining Health (Formerly Health and Efficiency)
        13
        But what really matters about swimming isn't the luxuriousness of the pool What makes the best swimming pool?
        The Guardian
        14
        She will pervert the aesthetic in him, through her hold on his material nature, his vanity, his luxuriousness.
        The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story — Volume 3
        15
        And that luxuriousness of being, which
        The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12,...
        16
        She never demanded luxuriousness from him.
        Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days
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        Spanish
        lujo
        Luxuriousness through the time