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Definition of Luxury

Luxury

  1. A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes.
  2. 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.
  3. Lechery; lust.
  4. Luxuriance; exuberance.

Luxury Quotations

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

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

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

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

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