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  • It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.  (source)
    sumptuous = impressively wonderful
  • The three men walk back downstairs to another sumptuous room, where an officer opens a large vault set into a wall.†  (source)
  • They ate a sumptuous meal by candlelight.†  (source)
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  • Cold, sumptuous silk onto which the sea has laid offerings: pebbles, shells, barnacles.†  (source)
  • Therefore, although the living room was quite sumptuously arranged with upholstered chairs and couches, very little of this furniture was usable—and so a guest, his or her knees already bending in the act of sitting down, would suddenly snap to attention as my grandmother shouted, "Oh, for goodness sake, not there!†  (source)
  • According to my pocket dictionary; that means district, and the buildings in my arrondissement blend one into another, curving around corners with the sumptuousness of wedding cakes.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • The more sumptuous the dope, the deeper the anguish —mental and physical — when it wore off.†  (source)
  • If his income were L5000 a year, he would give away L4500 in one form and another, and live sumptuously (for him) on the remainder.†  (source)
  • They would see the sumptuousness of Venice, not its shape, and though Venice was not Europe, it was part of the Mediterranean harmony.†  (source)
  • She couldn't stop looking at his wolfish eyes and his sumptuous pink mouth.†  (source)
  • It certainly was agreeable to fare sumptuously, drive in a fine carriage, wear her best frock every day, and do nothing but enjoy herself.†  (source)
  • Sumptuousness and splendor.†  (source)
  • Cinder cast one more look at her stepsisters' sumptuous gowns before backing out of the room.†  (source)
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