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Sumptuously
Sumptuous Sump"tu*ous, a. [L. sumptuosus, fr. sumptus expanse, cost: cf. F. somptueux. See Sumptuary.] Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. --Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. --Tennyson. -- Sump"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Sump"tu*ous*ness, n.

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- Russia. He developed an easily recognizable style of Late Baroque, both sumptuous and majestic. His major works, including the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg...
- in Venice, but traveled and was prolific throughout Europe, where his sumptuous portraits were much in demand. He was born in Naples. Amigoni initially...
- intriguing and tiresome effect, The Agency situates its all-star cast in a sumptuously-shot world of espionage." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average,...
- vast empire based in Tartary that has been suppressed from history. Sumptuously styled Gilded Age buildings are often held out as really having been...
- Clusius. In architecture, the huge profits of the ****e trade financed a sumptuous composite style in the first decades of the 16th century, the Manueline...
- empire-wide cult to the deceased Augustus. When Tiberius died, he was given a sumptuous funeral be****ing his office, but no divine honours. He came to be remembered...
- The sumptuously decorated Dorset Gardens playhouse in 1673, with one of the sets for Elkannah Settle's The Empress of Morocco. The apron stage at the...
- critics defined them as films focusing on romance and relationships in sumptuous surroundings, contrasting them with other historical dramas believed to...
- when she was away from Rome and which gives it its po****r name. It was sumptuously decorated with fine works of art. Its marble columns and capitals mark...
- southern France. The food writer Elizabeth David described it as "that sumptuous amalgamation of haricot beans, sausage, pork, mutton and preserved goose...