sumptuous
\SUHMP-choo-uhs\
adjective
1. entailing great expense, as from choice materials, fine work, etc.; costly: a sumptuous residence.
2. luxuriously fine or large; lavish; splendid: a sumptuous feast.
Quotes
In the sumptuous and enormous hotel room Rick Deckard sat reading the typed carbon sheets on the two androids Roy and Irmgard Baty.
-- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1968
Origin
Sumptuous is related to the word sumptuary and comes from the Latin word sūmptus meaning "expense."
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