Adjective : a luxurious hotel. ,a person with luxurious tastes. ,a luxurious harvest; music of luxurious beauty. ,luxurious prose. From Dictionary.com.
They were amazed by the luxuriousness of the ship. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
BLACK: Now a little of that luxuriousness can be taken home. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007] Reference
There's a certain undeniable scale and luxuriousness to Karan's show. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion Week wrap-up: Fresh talent has clearly joined the ranks of the old guard] Reference
The luxuriousness of the House of the Vestals has already been discussed. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Pompeii - Field Notes: August 5, 2002] Reference
We find that the velvet-like luxuriousness of red Burgundy creates a special mood. From Wordnik.com. [Love and an Elegant White] Reference
‘All seasons are alike to me,’ she returned, with a grim kind of luxuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
Perhaps that's why actresses are so drawn to the opulent luxuriousness of European couture. From Wordnik.com. [Gioia Diliberto: Is the Red Carpet French?] Reference
The X factor at Nebesa isn't the luxuriousness of the hotel – it's actually fairly simple. From Wordnik.com. [Summer holidays: 10 of the best trips for couples] Reference
His songs abound in warmth of expression, simplicity of sentiment, and luxuriousness of fancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
But, if the bill of fare was meagre, the bill of costs made up for it in its wealth of luxuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference
They like the luxuriousness of these cars, but presumably want to blend in a bit more than BMW drivers do. From Wordnik.com. [2006 Volkswagen Passat 3.6] Reference
In the pre-globalization age, social thinkers had the luxury of speculating about the luxuriousness of luxury. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: Are IKEA, Outlet Malls, Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods Really Bargains?] Reference
Those who want to smell Warhol references, will intuit them in its decadent luxuriousness and pleasant oddness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
I loved this...i remember those beautiful boxes that the perfume came in....sheer luxuriousness and gorgeousness. From Wordnik.com. [Shalimar] Reference
I can vouch for the luxuriousness of Davy Jones's scarves and Sunyata's jewelry is definitely a favorite of mine. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
With the advance of civilization the peoples change their mode of life from simplicity to luxuriousness and complexity. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
She shook her head, with the same austere air of luxuriousness that she had shown over – night when speaking of the weather. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
Rooms, laboratories, even halls, had a degree of luxuriousness — why, there was a fireplace with a real fire in the common room!. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
A Jamaican beach resort with interiors designed with the signature classic, clean lines and understated luxuriousness of Ralph Lauren. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Chan: The Top Ten Fashion Designer Hotels in the World] Reference
My journey back to the line included a stay at a depot where officers were speedily reminded that they had left the smooth luxuriousness of. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Madoc's uncomfortable flirtation with the luxuriousness of the enemy was left to stand until 1815, when Southey prepared a new edition of the poem. From Wordnik.com. [The Allure of the Same: Robert Southey's Welsh Indians and the Rhetoric of Good Colonialism] Reference
Diana pulled up her horse to look at it, for it was unusually beautiful in the luxuriousness and arrangement of its group of palms and leafy bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Regardless, the comfortable MKS succeeds on this most basic tenet of luxuriousness, earning it the right to stand as the brand's new flagship settee. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Soft Sell: a Cushy Sedan] Reference
The luxuriousness of bathing in an ocean having a temperature of 108� is not for the multitude who crowd in reeking cities which the sun touches tremulously and slantwise. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
The politicians of the two kingdoms, Scotland and England, reverting from the severe discipline of the "Protector," launched into every excess of luxuriousness and dissipation. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
The attribution also justified the house's luxuriousness -- its sprawl, its fountains, pools, and bath, its two atria and two peristyles, and its impressive frescoes and mosaics. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Pompeii - Field Notes: August 5, 2002] Reference
If it had been eighty pound, the luxuriousness of feeling would have been increased. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference
All the luxuriousness of his verse has gone, and the lines ring like sword clashing against sword. From Wordnik.com. [Figures of Several Centuries] Reference
He has no right to run risks, but does not feel it his duty to avoid an unproductive luxuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference
The conveyance that met them at the station had all the dignity and luxuriousness of a private carriage. From Wordnik.com. [When God Laughs: and other stories] Reference
The story of Venice is that of Tyre over again, -- her wealth, her glory, her luxuriousness, and now her doom. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference
Here and there little areas of the rudest cultivation broke into a luxuriousness of orange, lime, and fig trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference
The question sinks us back to the luxuriousness of a sunny relinquishment of effort in the direction against tide. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
It would ill become us to dilate at length upon the extremes into which their arrogance and luxuriousness led them. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
She was dressed in the sleek tight-fitting trying-on robe of the professional model, and her figure was superb in its firm luxuriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference
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