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  • n  the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive

  • In line of duty, the Frenchman sat down and wrote a report to his foreign minister back home: "I never in all my life saw such thorough cleanliness, neatness and sumptuosity.
  • He has gone on to become one of them, leaving behind the paradoxical legacy of a man who loved both understatement and sumptuosity, nicety and grandeur.
  • As a matter of courtesy its sumptuosity and splendor were placed at the disposal of the new King.

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