Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is given to luxury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One given to luxury.
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- noun obsolete One given to
luxury .
Etymologies
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luxury + -ist
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Examples
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Instead of the pallid brow, leaden eye, fleshly look, and the red cheek of the wine-bibber and luxurist of the cities, he exhibited the embrowned, thin, but firm and healthy face, and the clear and cheerful complexion of the contented laborer of the country, -- tell-tale looks both, which we always encounter with as much secret disgust in the former as we do with involuntary respect in the latter.
Gaut Gurley D. P. Thompson 1831
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