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- Even now, stripped of their opulence, crowded into two-bedroom apartments in Hialeah and Little Havana, the Puente women clung to their rituals as they did their engraved silverware, succumbing to a cloying nostalgia.†
Chpt 2.9opulence = magnificence or luxury
- Lourdes wishes Ivanito were with her so she could point out the opulence—the nine-hole golf course, the landing dock for the seaplane, the Carrara marble floors.
Chpt 3.16 *opulence = luxury
Definitions:
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(opulent) magnificent and luxurious -- usually expensive
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, opulent can reference a rich abundance of something; or that someone is rich.