All 3 Uses of
luxurious
in
Rose Red
- Here we are aboard the Ocean Star, a luxurious steamer bound for Tahiti, in a presidential stateroom fit for a king and queen (three rooms and a full bath with WC).†
Chpt 2 *
- And whereas our fine home now accommodates over thirty-five thousand square feet of living space, can sleep forty-two and feed several hundred in grand style, she could have been more grand, more luxurious had John not started pinching his pennies.†
Chpt 11
- She walked luxuriously, strolling down the great wide halls of Rose Red as if in a processional, my husband trailing a few yards behind.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(luxurious) rich and superior in quality
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(2)
(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.