All 5 Uses of
opulent
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Let us add a quantity of fine, amusing, and varied streets, like the Rue de Rivoli, and I do not despair of Paris presenting to the eye, when viewed from a balloon, that richness of line, that opulence of detail, that diversity of aspect, that grandiose something in the simple, and unexpected in the beautiful, which characterizes a checker-board.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- Thus, in order to enunciate here only summarily, a law which it would require volumes to develop: in the high Orient, the cradle of primitive times, after Hindoo architecture came Phoenician architecture, that opulent mother of Arabian architecture; in antiquity, after Egyptian architecture, of which Etruscan style and cyclopean monuments are but one variety, came Greek architecture (of which the Roman style is only a continuation), surcharged with the Carthaginian dome; in modern…†
Chpt 1.5.2
- The general characteristics of popular masonry, on the contrary, are progress, originality, opulence, perpetual movement.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- …coif, twined with pearls, to their heels, from the fineness of the embroidered chemisette which covered their shoulders and allowed a glimpse, according to the pleasing custom of the time, of the swell of their fair virgin bosoms, from the opulence of their under-petticoats still more precious than their overdress (marvellous refinement), from the gauze, the silk, the velvet, with which all this was composed, and, above all, from the whiteness of their hands, which certified to their…†
Chpt 2.7.1
- that opulent cathedral, a vast reservoir where the wealth of three centuries had been piled up.
Chpt 2.10.4 *opulent = magnificent
Definition:
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(opulent) magnificent and luxurious -- usually expensive