very expensive and looking very impressive 华贵的;豪华的;奢华的 a sumptuous meal 盛宴 We dined in sumptuous surroundings. 我们在富丽堂皇的环境中用餐。 The interior is decorated in sumptuous reds and golds. 内部用华丽的红色和金色装饰。
Oxford Collocations DictionarySumptuous is used with these nouns:- banquet
- dinner
- feast
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘made or produced at great cost’): from Old French somptueux, from Latin sumptuosus, from sumptus ‘expenditure’, from sumere ‘take’.