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luxury

Etymology

From Middle English luxurie, from Old French luxurie, from Latin luxuria, from luxus.

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luxury

Very wealthy and comfortable surroundings.
Something desirable but expensive.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
  “ […] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic? […] ”
Something that is pleasant but not necessary in life.
(obsolete) Lustfulness; sexual desire or attraction.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iv], page 51 ↗, column 2:
  Fie on sinnefull phantasie: Fie on Lust, and Luxurie:
(obsolete) Copulation; the act or action of sex.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene iii], page 258 ↗, column 1:
  Let not the Royall Bed of Denmark be / A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.

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luxury

Very expensive.
Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
(automotive) Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.

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