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‖ de luxe, adj. phr.|də lyks, lʌks|
[Fr., lit. ‘of luxury’.]
Luxurious, sumptuous; of a superior kind.
1819Edition de luxe [see luxe 2]. 1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore viii, I wonder governments don't tax good talk; it's quite a luxury, and they might add de luxe. 1885Edition de luxe [see luxe 2]. 1890Trains de luxe [see luxe 2]. 1908Westm. Gaz. 6 June 5/1 We are conscious of something De luxe, but not oppressed by the sense of it. 1934Punch 20 June 679/3 They will disclose Britannia, enthroned on the top of a de luxe model of one of those erections from which they mend tram-wires. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxvii. 52 Before the deluxe car carried him over the precipice. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences viii. 182 Members of the upper economic strata..who patronise hotels de luxe. 1970K. Chesney Victorian Underworld 336 These places were often little businesses engaged in a de luxe trade, glovers, bonnet makers, perfumers and so on. |