deluxe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈlʌks/
ipa: /dɪˈlʌks/
ipa: /diˈlʌks/
rhymes: -ʌks
Forms: form: more deluxe
form: deluxer
form: most deluxe
form: deluxest
form: de luxe
Etymology: Borrowed from French de luxe (“of luxury”), from Latin luxus (“excess”).
Senses: examples: text: The band released a deluxe version of their LP, containing bonus tracks and with a personal message by all the members in the sleeve.
text: “I have here, sir,” he said, “one of the deluxest editions de luxe now in print. Observe the handsome tree calf binding, notice the gold gilt crinkle edges and stand aghast with admiration before the profuse and artistic illustrations.”
ref: 1925 August 20, “Daily Novelette: Two of a Kind”, in The Lindsay Daily Post, 29th year, number 194, Lindsay, Ont., page five, column 1:
text: The Reforma is Mexico’s deluxest hotel—and it is about as Mexican as the Ziegfeld Follies.
ref: 1937, Howard Vincent O’Brien, “The Modern Touch”, in Notes for a Book about Mexico, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Willett, Clark & Company, page 99:
text: And fer the deluxest of ’em all, get our reg. $59.95 list 20-inch Reversible Window Fan, $39.99, sucks in cool air or blows out hot air.
ref: 1950 July 20, “We Kaint Make No Five Spot out of a Plain Dollar Bill: But We Kin Kum So Close You Won't Never Know the Difference with Bargain City's Low Prices!”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 102, number 308, St. Louis, Mo., page 8A:
text: And many a noble heart takes shelter under roofs no grander nor deluxer than this one.
ref: 1951, Florence Crannell Means, “Meet the Grande Deluxe!”, in Hetty of the Grande Deluxe, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 13:
text: It is probably the most deluxest hospice in New York and was until recently the pied-a-tree of Clare Booth Luce and her consort, Chinaboy Henry, otherwise known as Fui Piu.
ref: 1951 February 9, The Kingston Daily Freeman, volume LXXX, number 96, Kingston, N.Y., page four:
text: A tribe of North Carolina Indians routs the Ku Klux Klan. Carolina war party chant: “Nothing is deluxer than to chase a Ku Ku Kluxer in the morning.”
ref: 1958 February 3, “Clipped Quips”, in Kilgore News Herald, 28th year, number 29, Kilgore, Tex., page 4:
text: There’s nothing deluxer than the kitchen equipment in this house.
ref: 1960 June 1, Amarillo Globe-Times, 37th year, number 73, Amarillo, Tex., page 30:
text: The trend started with custom builders and their efforts in the game of one-upmanship for that “deluxer than thou” touch.
ref: 1967 April 5, J.J. Dorsey, “Dover Firm Develops New Car Top Vinyl”, in The Daily Reporter, volume 64, number 226, Dover, Oh. – New Philadelphia, Oh., page 3:
text: Winging your way all Nudie’d up is the Deluxest Burrito of them all — swell if you don’t break a tooth on the sequins.
ref: 1970, Entertainment World, page 30:
text: Deluxest Of Christmas Dinners / For a posh Christmas celebration, some families take in the famous Bracebridge Dinner pageant, which has been held at The Ahwahnee for four decades, still with the original cast and its descendants.
ref: 1972, “Yosemite Rediscovered”, in Explorer’s Guide to the West, volume 3 (Southern Mountains), The H. M. Gousha Co., →LCCN, page 124:
text: “Guess you foiled me this time, good buddy. But now”—and here he turns from the mountains, his eyes dancing with that new energy, his lips in a sly smile—“now it’s time for my deluxest yarn. The greatest story ever told.”
ref: 1980, Andrew Klavan, Face of the Earth, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →ISBN, page 41:
text: The Madame du Pompadour was everything the fag clerk said it was: the deluxest deluxe either one of them had ever stood inside.
ref: 1981, David Littlejohn, Going to California, New York, N.Y.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, →ISBN, page 60:
text: Deluxer than Ever / Deluxe Paint is getting another facelift from Electronic Arts (1820 Gateway Drive, San Mateo, California 94404, 415-571-7171).
ref: 1989 March, Compute!, volume 11, number 3, issue 106, page 60:
text: “You haven’t heard of Mrs. Kirkland’s?” She can scarcely believe my ignorance. “It’s the deluxest establishment in the city. Mrs. Kirkland says everybody dreams of making love to a movie star. I thought everybody had heard of Mrs. Kirkland’s.” “Sit down.” “Very deluxe,” she repeats, still standing. “We have a splendid piano player, you should come just to hear him.[…]”
ref: 1996, Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman’s Boy, Toronto, Ont.: McClelland & Stewart Inc., →ISBN, page 248:
text: The Luxor’s “Blue Man Group” is de-luxer than its long-running editions in New York, Boston and Chicago.
ref: 2000 March 12, Michael Phillips, “The Playhouse in the Desert”, in Los Angeles Times, page 95:
text: “Safety reasons,” she snorts, dousing herself recklessly with borrowed floods of her mother’s deluxest perfume, thinking again of Mr. Loser’s obnoxious phone call.
ref: 2005, Barry Yourgrau, NASTYbook, Joanna Cotler Books, →ISBN, page 101:
text: This condo was nicer than Richard’s fancy high-rise condo in Chicago and deluxer than their Deluxe Park View Suite at the Ritz.
ref: 2007, Richard Kaempfer, “Frosty reception”, in $everance, Hoboken, N.J.: ENC Press, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: Very fine in quality or luxurious.
Derived terms: superdeluxe
ultradeluxe
Related terms: luxuriant
luxurious