luxe

[ looks, luhks; French lyks ]

noun

luxury; elegance; sumptuousness: accommodations providing luxe at low rates.: Compare deluxe.

adjective

luxurious; deluxe: luxe accommodations.

Origin of luxe

1550–60; <French <Latin luxus excess

Words Nearby luxe

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How to use luxe in a sentence

Couture Week in Paris is a blur of highly-priced luxury, some of it luxe, some of it trashy-looking.
What’s Haute, What’s Not: The Meaning of Modern Couture | Liza Foreman | July 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The lengths added that luxe-sporty touch that the designer embraces so well.
At Balenciaga, Short & Sweet | Alice Cavanagh | September 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
In a lovely circular twist, the tapestry's true subject turns out to be the luxe of which it's an example.
Unicorn, the Luxury Meat | Blake Gopnik | July 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
There was plenty of print, masses of fur—the luxe Tom Ford kind—and an array of eye-bending geometric designs.
Tom Ford Talks Rihanna, Fatherhood & Fall 2013 Collection | Tom Sykes | February 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Indeed it was, a show full of energy, awash in fur, velvet, luxe combat prints and delicious deep plums and purples.
Christopher Kane Kicks Ass At #LFW | Tom Sykes | February 18, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

Please refund money at once or forward me without delay a consistent photograph of a 'special edition de luxe' girl.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
You paid me a lot of money—all in advance—for a six weeks' special edition de luxe Love-Letter Serial.
Molly Make-Believe | Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
They were elegantly furnished and always adorned with flowers—for he loved le luxe and had the coquetterie des appartements.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick Niecks
"Strikes me that Paul is something of an objet de luxe," he reflected, as he turned off Albany Street.
Happy House | Betsey Riddle, Freifrau von Hutten zum Stolzenberg
This is the opportunity "de luxe" for the child to earn a few pennies to enlarge his bank account.
The Mother and Her Child | William S. Sadler

British Dictionary definitions for luxe

luxe

/ (lʌks, lʊks, French lyks) /

noun

See de luxe

Origin of luxe

C16: from French from Latin luxus extravagance, luxury

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