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luxury

/ˈlʌɡ.ʒə.ɹi/ adjective B2
  1. Very expensive.
  2. Not essential but desirable and enjoyable and indulgent.
  3. Pertaining to the top-end market segment for mass production mass market vehicles, above the premium market segment.
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He arrayed himself in the regalia of millionaires and presidents; he took himself to the quarter where life is brightest and showiest, and there dined with taste and luxury.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 26 · C1
At a certain corner he came to a standstill, proposing to himself the question of turning back toward the showy and fashionable restaurant in which he usually dined on the evenings of his especial luxury.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 27 · C1
His brief season of elegant luxury would be doubly enjoyable if he could add to it a lady’s society.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 28 · C1
“It won’t be the same thing as having her here all the time,” sighed Marilla gloomily, determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 263 · C1

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