Both Uses of
sumptuous
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- "The queen who mended her stockings in prison," he thought, "must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees."†
Chpt 3.2 *
- A fine, sumptuous country cottage in the English taste overgrown with fragrant flowers, with flower beds going round the house; the porch, wreathed in climbers, was surrounded with beds of roses.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
magnificent (impressively wonderful) -- often indicating something expensive