luxe
/lʌks
/ /lʊks /adjective
Expensive and of high quality; luxurious: the luxe 65-room Four Seasons hotel...
- In 1926, a Belgian boutique began selling smooth, indulgent chocolates in a luxe gold box.
- Spend seven days exploring deep-sea life from a shamelessly luxe live-aboard yacht.
- The material is metallic in a comfortable blue tone to give an effortless luxe look.
noun [mass noun]
Luxury: inside, the design reverts to turn-of-the-century luxe...
- I admit from the start that you could argue that this is not real luxury but a kind of ersatz variety, punk luxe, and maybe you would be correct.
- The town, a ski resort in winter (and site of the 1956 Winter Olympics), is a kind of anti-Aspen: elegant and luxe yet warmly human, full of comfortable old hotels built in a blocky chalet style.
- She expects to pine for the Chronicle's luxe test kitchen - which she helped set up - not to mention its herb garden and 20,000 bottle wine cellar.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from French, from Latin luxus 'abundance'. Compare with deluxe.
Rhymes
- oligolege
- oligomenorrhea
- oligomenorrheic
- oligomenorrhoea
- oligomenorrhoeal
- oligomenorrhoeic
- oligomer
- oligomerise
- oligomerization
- oligomerize
- oligomerous
- oligomery
- oligomictic
- oligomycin
- oligonucleotide
- oligopeptide
- oligophage
- oligophagous
- oligophagy
- oligophrenia
- oligophyllous
- oligopod
- oligopolist
- oligopolistic
- oligopoly