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He gaped at the power of a steam-driven grist mill and at the opulence of the mill owners’ home, a stately brick mansion.

One luxury store, he said, was just about to open it doors last fall when the brand decided to pump up the opulence.

Porco Banh Mi’sh– from Porchetta District –Summer, the season of peaches and corn and tomatoes, is not exactly a time for porchetta, that succulent slab of porcine opulence.

Some historians believe that their “private squalor” led to “public opulence,” in the sense that nonlinear buildings can be the perfect inspiration for some pretty creative thoughts.

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We see it at several different periods, from the height of its opulence in the 1930s to the shabby Communist look of the 1960s.

The scale, opulence and fantasy so prevalent a few miles away on the Strip is nowhere to be found.

Many say that The Great Beauty is the new Fellini, with its handsome surrealism, baroque expressions, and casual opulence.

The Daily Pic: The Met's Cloisters branch turns 75, and shows off knightly opulence.

The opulence of the gifts is legendary, and it used to be that the presenters and performers at the ceremony also received them.

There were hundreds of thousands in France, the most illustrious in rank and opulence, who would join such an army.

Opulence introduced the cultivation of the fine arts, with a taste for literature, and consequently for disputation.

There are beings so dejected—so penurious—that this swearing constitutes their whole store of worldly opulence.

The emigrant from the sandbanks of Cape Cod revels in the profusion of the opulence of Ohio.

Hundreds of families were burned out, and reduced from opulence, or at least competency, to penury.

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to opulence, such as: abundance, affluence, belongings, excess, fortune, and goods.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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