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Luxury

Behavior, expenses or equipment that far exceed the average standard of living of a society

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  • A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.

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    A physician gazing in amazement at a urine sample of an elderly female patient who is seated near him in a richly furnished room. Engraving by J.B. Fosseyeux after F. Giani after G. Dou.

    | Gerrit Dou | Reference: 21718i
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    An essay on modern luxury or, an attempt to delineate its nature, causes, and effects. By S. Fawconer, M.A.

    | Fawconer, Samuel b. 1727 or 8. | Date: 1765
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    Sanitatis tuendae praecepta cum aliis, tum literarum studiosis hominibus, & ijs qui minus exercentur, cognitu necessaria. : Contra luxum conuiuiorum. Contra notas astrologicas ephemeridum de secandis venis.

    | Conrad Gessner | Date: [1556?]
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    The Tryal of the Lady Allurea Luxury, before the Lord Chief-Justice Upright : on an information for a conspiracy.

    | Date: 1757
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    Luxury : the concept in Western thought, Eden to Smollett / John Sekora.

    | Sekora, John | Date: [1977]
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