sumptuous

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SUMP'TUOUS, adjective [Latin sumptuosus.] Costly; expensive; hence, splendid; magnificent; as a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificent and sumptuous in our tables and attendance.
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