sumptuous• a sumptuousbanquet• Meals are served in the intimaterestaurant and include a sumptuousbuffetbreakfast.• The restaurant offers a sumptuous buffet-style breakfast each morning and a widechoice of dishes at dinner.• Many of the writers are also professionalphotographers and this certainly shows - the book is crammed full of sumptuous colour pictures.• The war prevented this flight and instead the Stratoliner was to become his executive run-about and was fitted with a sumptuousinterior.• There is also a sumptuous leather-chaired billiard room.• After a sumptuousrepast he asked the Mayor whether the gallows was prepared.• They were given a sumptuoustea and invited back any time they felt like coming.
Originsumptuous
(1400-1500)Old Frenchsumptueux, from Latinsumptuosus, from sumptus“cost”