Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Extravagant; profuse.
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Lady Gaga's egg-stravagant Grammy entrance last night inspired us to spend our morning looking at every Gaga joke and parody we could find.
WATCH: Lady Gaga's Egg-trance Reimagined Carol Hartsell 2011
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Lady Gaga s egg-stravagant Grammy entrance last night inspired us to spend our morning looking at...
WATCH: Lady Gaga's Egg-trance Reimagined Carol Hartsell 2011
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Lady Gaga's egg-stravagant Grammy entrance last night inspired us to spend our morning looking at every Gaga joke and parody we could find.
WATCH: Lady Gaga's Egg-trance Reimagined Carol Hartsell 2011
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Prothero so 'stravagant! ach a fi! and Prothero, Glanyfavon, who was turning against him, and kicking me out of his house.
Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale
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"Dat man am shuah some mighty 'stravagant punkins, in he's own mind," he remarked.
Mary Louise in the Country J. Allen St. [Illustrator] John 1887
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An '' pears to me right dar, dat if I wusn't a chu'ch member, I shed be led on ter say dat, considerin 'what a skaseness er good cooks dar is, seems like de good Lawd's almost wasteful an' stravagant, de way he lets 'em die off.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Ses I, -- 'Fanny, you's very stravagant, dragin' all dat silk on de floor in dat way. '
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"Dey's a wasteful, stravagant sort ob fish," remarked Mrs. Lee, in frequent explanation of her dislike.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 Various 1868
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"Well, well, ef dis ain't de most stravagant nigger I ever see; I sole two bales of cotton dis bressed day, an 'got one hundred and twenty-two dollars, an' now I is got only dis."
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