The quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive.
1 Neither Lyons, Bordeaux, Nantes, can compare with it for sumptuosity .
2 Site, sumptuosity , climate, vegetation here attain their acme; so far, indeed, Nice may be pronounced flawless.
3 To facilitate matters the two friends progressively modified the sumptuosity of the program they had imposed upon themselves.
4 He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity , and amusing them by his military airs.
5 Which will seem a strange doctrine, in these days of gold-nuggets, railway-fortunes, and miraculous, sumptuosities regardless of expense.
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