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luxe

[ looks, luhks; French lyks ]

noun

  1. luxury; elegance; sumptuousness: Compare deluxe.

    accommodations providing luxe at low rates.



adjective

  1. luxurious; deluxe:

    luxe accommodations.

luxe

/ lʊks; lʌks; lyks /

noun

  1. See de luxe


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Word History and Origins

Origin of luxe1

1550–60; < French < Latin luxus excess

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Word History and Origins

Origin of luxe1

C16: from French from Latin luxus extravagance, luxury

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Example Sentences

Couture Week in Paris is a blur of highly-priced luxury, some of it luxe, some of it trashy-looking.

The lengths added that luxe-sporty touch that the designer embraces so well.

In a lovely circular twist, the tapestry's true subject turns out to be the luxe of which it's an example.

There was plenty of print, masses of fur—the luxe Tom Ford kind—and an array of eye-bending geometric designs.

Indeed it was, a show full of energy, awash in fur, velvet, luxe combat prints and delicious deep plums and purples.

Please refund money at once or forward me without delay a consistent photograph of a 'special edition de luxe' girl.

You paid me a lot of money—all in advance—for a six weeks' special edition de luxe Love-Letter Serial.

They were elegantly furnished and always adorned with flowers—for he loved le luxe and had the coquetterie des appartements.

"Strikes me that Paul is something of an objet de luxe," he reflected, as he turned off Albany Street.

This is the opportunity "de luxe" for the child to earn a few pennies to enlarge his bank account.

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