For the past decade, university arms races have centered on who can build the most luxurious dorms and biggest sports facilities or offer the most “country club” amenities like posh gyms and pools.
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Remote or queue observing can be downright luxurious for astronomers — it’s certainly more pandemic-friendly — but astronomers aren’t the only ones working at telescopes.
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For apartments, developers would pay at maximum $10,976 per 500 square foot apartment and $17,150 per luxurious 1,251 square foot apartment.
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To add another layer of inequity, San Diego’s newer neighborhoods to the north operate under a different and more luxurious fee.
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One of its few concessions to the luxurious standards of the neighbors is a long, winding road.
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But Lear insists his longer, more detailed journeys are more thorough, experience-rich, and luxurious.
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But with unlimited access to the luxurious sandwiches, piled high with glistening meat, a buttery apocalypse of gluttony unfolded.
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But cozy coats were also plentiful and added soft, luxurious warmth.
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Iris Van Herpen and Delphine Manivet each have a technical mastery that falls within the luxurious customs of haute couture.
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She was the picture of luxurious comfort, except for the frown upon her pretty brow.
The Cricket|Marjorie Cooke
A field of new-mown hay provided him with the most luxurious bedroom man could desire.
A Dog with a Bad Name|Talbot Baines Reed
He feels something of the air of the penitentiary in the very refinements of his luxurious hostelrie.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844|Various
Lucien was thirsting already for enjoyment; he was in love with the easy, luxurious, and expensive life which the actress led.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris|Honore de Balzac
To her luxurious but austerely managed villa, Aunt Septima welcomed Brinnaria with heartfelt, if repressed affection.
The Unwilling Vestal|Edward Lucas White
British Dictionary definitions for luxurious
luxurious
/ (lʌɡˈzjʊərɪəs) /
adjective
characterized by luxury
enjoying or devoted to luxury
an archaic word for lecherous
Derived forms of luxurious
luxuriously, adverbluxuriousness, noun
Word Origin for luxurious
C14: via Old French from Latin luxuriōsus excessive
usage for luxurious
Luxurious is sometimes wrongly used where luxuriant is meant: he had a luxuriant (not luxurious) moustache; the walls were covered with a luxuriant growth of wisteria