All 6 Uses of
luxurious
in
Babbitt
- It served both of them as dressing-room, and on the coldest nights Babbitt luxuriously gave up the duty of being manly and retreated to the bed inside, to curl his toes in the warmth and laugh at the January gale.†
Chpt 2
- Where Zilla mocked him as a country boy, Myra said indignantly that he was ever so much solider than the young dandies who had been born in the great city of Zenith—an ancient settlement in 1897, one hundred and five years old, with two hundred thousand population, the queen and wonder of all the state and, to the Catawba boy, George Babbitt, so vast and thunderous and luxurious that he was flattered to know a girl ennobled by birth in Zenith.†
Chpt 6
- It was his luxurious custom to shave while sitting snugly in a tubful of hot water.†
Chpt 7 *
- To have a private washroom was luxurious.†
Chpt 13
- The modern and luxurious Babbitt had never seen any one ring for a servant in a private house, except during meals.†
Chpt 17
- It was luxurious to loll in a deep green rep chair, his legs thrust out before him, to glance at the black Chinese telephone stand and the colored photograph of Mount Vernon which he had always liked so much, while in the tiny kitchen—so near—Mrs. Judique sang "My Creole Queen."†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(luxurious) rich and superior in quality