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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Extravagance.
  • noun Something extravagant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Extravagance; a wandering; especially, a wandering out of or beyond the usual or proper course; a wild or licentious departure from custom or propriety; a vagary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Extravagance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic, 17th-19th centuries The characteristic of being extravagant.
  • noun archaic, 17th-19th centuries A thing that is extravagant.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth

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