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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.

• lavishness
• luxury
• sumptuousness