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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; < French de luxe of luxury
1810–20; < French de luxe of luxury
Related forms
su·per·de·luxe, adjective
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Word Origin & History
deluxe
1819, from Fr. de luxe, lit. "of luxury," from L. luxus "excess, abundance."
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