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For Whom the Bell Tolls
- He had not liked Gaylord's, the hotel in Madrid the Russians had taken over when he first went there because it seemed too luxurious and the food was too good for a besieged city and the talk too cynical for a war.†
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- Gaylord's itself had seemed indecently luxurious and corrupt.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(luxurious) rich and superior in quality
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In archaic literature, luxurious could mean excessively indulgent in sensual pleasures or being lustful.