All 4 Uses of
sumptuous
in
David Copperfield
- By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- He described it as an apartment of the most sumptuous nature, and said that he had drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.†
Chpt 25-27
- Within the first week of my passion, I bought four sumptuous waistcoats — not for myself; I had no pride in them; for Dora — and took to wearing straw-coloured kid gloves in the streets, and laid the foundations of all the corns I have ever had.†
Chpt 25-27
- For, though Julia has a stately house, and mighty company, and sumptuous dinners every day, I see no green growth near her; nothing that can ever come to fruit or flower.†
Chpt 63-64
Definition:
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(sumptuous) of superior quality -- often indicating extravagance or expensiveness