Both Uses of
luxurious
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- She put on an apron and began to cook, simple, but luxurious foods: oyster stew with crisp crackers on the side, corn yellowing on the cob, a fresh green salad, small lobsters she'd bought that morning at the market, still in buckets of seawater.†
p. 179.0 *
- His hair was longer, thick and luxurious despite the gray, and he seemed satisfied, settled.†
p. 244.3
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.