† luxure Obs.
[a. F. luxure (13th c. in Littré), ad. L. luxuria: see luxury.]
= luxury 1.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. vii. 62 (Camb. MS.) Who-so-euere wole remembryn hym of hyse luxures, he shal wel vndyrstonde þat [etc.]. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 245 The Philosophre..conseileth to a king, That he the surfet of luxure Schal tempre. |