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gorgeousness|ˈgɔːdʒəsnɪs|
[f. gorgeous a. + -ness.]
The condition, quality, or state of being gorgeous; splendour; magnificence.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Jas. 26 What a gorgiousnes of grene leaues, what a glistering. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. F iv, For very suche make the greatnes and gorgeousnes of an Oracion. 1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 177 Lust, ambition, gorgeousnesse in apparell..and the like. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 18 We had liberty in this interval to survey the Gorgeousness of his Attire. 1838Lytton Leila i. iv, The chamber..had a more massive, and if we may use the term, Egyptian gorgeousness. 1868Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) II. 144 The perfect gorgeousness of autumn. |