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The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
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- One afternoon, a month later, Dorian Gray was reclining in a luxurious arm-chair, in the little library of Lord Henry's house in Mayfair.†
Chpt 4 *
- Then he rose from the table, lit a cigarette, and flung himself down on a luxuriously-cushioned couch that stood facing the screen.†
Chpt 8
- They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.†
Chpt 8
Definitions:
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(1)
(luxurious) rich and superior in quality
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In archaic literature, luxurious could mean excessively indulgent in sensual pleasures or being lustful.