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luxe
Also 7 lux.
[a. F. luxe, ad. L. luxus.]
1. Luxury. Also attrib. or quasi-adj.
1558in Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 399 note, While they..in luxe and lewdness, did sail in a sure port. a1618Sylvester Spectacles xviii, Ambition, Luxe, and Avarice. 1636E. Dacres tr. Machiavel's Disc. Livy I. ii. 12 To exceed others in luxe and wantonnesse. 1661Evelyn Tyrannus (ed. 2) 14 There will need no Sumptuary lawes to represse..the Lux which Men so much condemn in our Apparrel. 1718Prior Pleasure 14 The power of wealth I tried, And all the various luxe of costly pride. 1746Shenstone Elegies xxi. 39 Above or Persian luxe or Attic art, The rude majestic monument arose. 1908Westm. Gaz. 28 July 11/3 We possess..a special department for hiring out luxe carriages. Ibid., One of our Charron luxe cars fills all the essentials of a gentleman's private car. 1932R. Fry Let. 26 Apr. (1972) II. 667 Epidauros..was all on a grand scale and tremendous luxe in the architecture. 1959N.Y. Times 8 Nov. i. 98 (Advt.), The incomparable beauty and luxe of silk. 1961Ibid. 26 Nov. i. 91 (Advt.), The great revival of the luxe little mesh evening bag. 1967L. Deighton London Dossier 124 Jermyn Street..is a thoroughfare resonant with luxe. 1968L. Durrell Tunc iii. 94 For tonight the Pera hotel..will enable you to rest. There is every luxe. 1974New Yorker 3 June 98/2 He looks round his palace of a house with sniffly and quite unfair resentment, considering its comfort and luxe.
‖2. The French luxe |lyks| occurs as an alien word with the sense: Luxuriousness, sumptuous elegance; esp. in édition de luxe, train de luxe.
1819Edinb. Rev. XXXII. 377 The paper used for printing, except in what are emphatically called les éditions de luxe, is very inferior to ours. 1885Athenæum 25 July 111/2 The volume may fairly claim to be, in a modest way, an édition de luxe. 1886Westm. Rev. Apr. 591 Paper and type are the very acme of refinement and luxe. 1888Pall Mall G. 4 Aug. 2/2 These were not luxe or ‘limited’ trains with extra fancy fares. 1890Bradshaw's Cont. Rlwy. Guide Jan. 49 ‘Train de Luxe’, consisting of Sleeping Cars and Lits-Salons, number of places limited. |