richness

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The benches, too, have a richness which is foreign to the House of Commons, as the members of the popular assembly sit on benches covered with a deep green leather, which is dark, modest, and unpretentious.

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  1. The state or quality of being rich. The country-girl, willing to give her utmost assistance, proposed to make an Indian cake, … which she could vouch for as possessing a richness, and, if rightly prepared, a delicacy, unequalled by any other mode of breakfast-cake. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vii.

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  • A lovely wine restrained richness, almond, hazelnut and lime nose but the goats cheese was a little too strong for the wine, deadeneing it somewhat. —  thecookscottage
  • With the right blend of textural richness, his alternating power and delicacy sustains this spontaneous creation through to its haunting, elegiac conclusion. —  Home
  • HTML lacks semantic richness, and by adding these elements, we increase the semantic richness of —  doggdot.us
  • I stirred a in a little creme fraiche for richness, and garnished our servings with feathery fennel fronds. —  Last Night's Dinner
  • In the LMS market, there is no clear market segmentation, and cost is not necessarily a good indicator of relative feature-richness (or quality). —  e-Literate
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  1. from Middle English richnesse; from rich + -ness.
 

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