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GORGEOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dazzlingly beautiful
Example:
a gorgeous Victorian gown
Classified under:
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Context examples:
She reminded him of Lizzie Connolly, though there was less of fire and gorgeous flaunting life in her than in that other girl of the working class whom he had seen twice.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There is something you should keep in mind: In the middle of this gorgeous trend, Mars’ little brother, Mercury, will go retrograde from February 16 to March 9.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
There were milkmaids and shepherdesses, with brightly colored bodices and golden spots all over their gowns; and princesses with most gorgeous frocks of silver and gold and purple; and shepherds dressed in knee breeches with pink and yellow and blue stripes down them, and golden buckles on their shoes; and princes with jeweled crowns upon their heads, wearing ermine robes and satin doublets; and funny clowns in ruffled gowns, with round red spots upon their cheeks and tall, pointed caps. And, strangest of all, these people were all made of china, even to their clothes, and were so small that the tallest of them was no higher than Dorothy's knee.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He came in gorgeous array, with plumed cap, red cloak, chestnut lovelocks, a guitar, and the boots, of course.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Or go skiing in rugged mountains and enter a gorgeous winter wonderland.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But in spite of the comical red imps, sparkling elves, and the gorgeous princes and princesses, Jo's pleasure had a drop of bitterness in it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Or go skiing in rugged mountains and enter a gorgeous winter wonderland. (Snow is frozen water, of course, so snow, too, is ruled by Pisces.)
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Finally, on the last Friday of the month, March 27, Jupiter will send Venus in Taurus a gorgeous beam.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was as good as Punch, for there were fat dowagers rolling about in their red and yellow coaches, with gorgeous Jeameses in silk stockings and velvet coats, up behind, and powdered coachmen in front.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
