Sumptuous
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Sumptuous is the quality of being luxurious, magnificent and splendid, suggesting abundance and great expense, and having a flavour of debauchery.
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Etymology
From French somptueux, from Latin sumptuōsus, from sūmptus (“cost, charge, expense”), perfect passive participle of sūmō, sūmere (“take”).
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