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单词 sumptuous
释义
sumptuoussump‧tu‧ous /ˈsʌmptʃuəs/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINsumptuous
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French sumptueux, from Latin sumptuosus, from sumptus ‘cost’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a sumptuous banquet
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After a sumptuous repast he asked the Mayor whether the gallows was prepared.
  • Many of the writers are also professional photographers and this certainly shows - the book is crammed full of sumptuous colour pictures.
  • Meals are served in the intimate restaurant and include a sumptuous buffet breakfast.
  • The restaurant offers a sumptuous buffet-style breakfast each morning and a wide choice of dishes at dinner.
  • The war prevented this flight and instead the Stratoliner was to become his executive run-about and was fitted with a sumptuous interior.
  • There is also a sumptuous leather-chaired billiard room.
  • They were given a sumptuous tea and invited back any time they felt like coming.
very impressive and expensive:  a sumptuous feast a sumptuous palacesumptuously adverbsumptuousness noun [uncountable]
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