All 3 Uses of
sumptuous
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- When I entered the house, the first thing I beheld in the middle of Assunta's chamber was a cradle that might be called sumptuous compared with the rest of the furniture, and in it a baby seven or eight months old.†
Chpt 43-44 *
- " Having delivered himself of this pompous address, uttered with a degree of energy that left the baron almost out of breath, he bowed to the assembled party and withdrew to his drawing-room, whose sumptuous furnishings of white and gold had caused a great sensation in the Chaussee d'Antin.†
Chpt 45-46
- The room was whitewashed, as is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.†
Chpt 107-108
Definition:
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(sumptuous) of superior quality -- often indicating extravagance or expensiveness