All 3 Uses of
luxurious
in
Bleak House
- Volumnia, as one of the more privileged cousins, in a luxurious chair between them.†
Chpt 28-30 *
- We were all assembled shortly before dinner, and he was still at the piano idly picking out in his luxurious way little strains of music, and talking between whiles of finishing some sketches of the ruined old Verulam wall to-morrow, which he had begun a year or two ago and had got tired of, when a card was brought in and my guardian read aloud in a surprised voice, "Sir Leicester Dedlock!"†
Chpt 43-45
- An effect of these horrors is that Volumnia finds she cannot go to bed in her own room or sit by the fire in her own room, but must come forth with her fair head tied up in a profusion of shawl, and her fair form enrobed in drapery, and parade the mansion like a ghost, particularly haunting the rooms, warm and luxurious, prepared for one who still does not return.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(luxurious) rich and superior in quality