Definition of Luxury

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Luxury

A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.

Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury.

Lechery; lust.

Luxuriance; exuberance.

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Luxury Quotations

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Charlie Chaplin

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

Luxury Translations

luxury in Afrikaans is luukse, weeldeartikel
luxury in Danish is luksus
luxury in Dutch is weeldeartikel, luxeartikel
luxury in French is magnificence, luxe
luxury in German is Luxus, Aufwand
luxury in Italian is lusso
luxury in Latin is luxuria
luxury in Norwegian is luksus
luxury in Portuguese is luxo
luxury in Spanish is lujo
luxury in Swedish is lyx

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