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Luxuriantly

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lux·u·ri·ant  (lg-zhr-nt, lk-shr-)
adj.
1.
a. Characterized by rich or profuse growth.
b. Producing or yielding in abundance. See Synonyms at profuse.
2. Excessively florid or elaborate.
3. Marked by or displaying luxury; luxurious.
[Latin luxurins, luxuriant-, present participle of luxurire, to be luxuriant; see luxuriate.]
lux·uri·ance n.
lux·uri·ant·ly adv.
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Adv.1.luxuriantly - in an abundant and luxuriant manner; "whiskers grew luxuriantly from his ample jowls"
2.luxuriantly - in an elegantly luxuriant way; "this suave, culture-loving and luxuriantly good-looking M.P.represents the car-workers of Coventry"


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Hortense, with her rich chesnut locks so luxuriantly knotted, plaited, twisted, as if she did not know how to dispose of all their abundance, with her vermilion lips, damask cheek, and roguish laughing eye.
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The bird's-eye perspective before her was not so luxuriantly beautiful, perhaps, as that other one which she knew so well; yet it was more cheering.
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