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de⋅luxe

[duh-luhks, -looks]
–adjective
1. of special elegance, sumptuousness, or fineness; high or highest in quality, luxury, etc.: a deluxe hotel; a deluxe edition of Shakespeare bound in leather.
–adverb
2. in a luxurious or sumptuous manner: We always travel deluxe.
Also, de luxe.


Origin:
1810–20; < F de luxe of luxury
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de·luxe also de luxe   (dĭ-lŭks', -lŏŏks')   
adj.  Particularly elegant and luxurious; sumptuous: deluxe accommodations; a de luxe automobile.
adv.  In an elegant and luxurious manner; sumptuously: traveling deluxe.

[French de luxe, of luxury : de, of + luxe, luxury.]
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Word Origin & History

deluxe 
1819, from Fr. de luxe, lit. "of luxury," from L. luxus "excess, abundance."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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