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lucullan

ADJECTIVE
  1. characterized by extravagance and profusion
    a lucullan feast
    a lavish buffet

How To Use lucullan In A Sentence

  • I accept this Lucullan offering as a true compliment, and am not repelled by my host's proud description, but these reactions are contradictory. Cardiac
  • In this respect the painting was as different from the other two as a decent meal is from something Lucullan. DEATH OF A NYMPH
  • The Lucullan villa at some point gave way to a monastery, enshrining the bones of Saint Severinus; circumstantial evidence suggests that Romulus and his mother may have founded it. The Road from Ravenna
  • Then, piling a Lucullan Pelion on Ossa in my Titanic hubris, I dug up a recipe for Paprika Pork Chops Molise Style, reasoning infallibly that paprika would complement its red bell pepper co-varietal quite nicely. Princeofcairo: [RECIPE] One Magnificent Meal
  • In some diminished manner the Lucullan estate must have still been extant in 476, because Romulus Augustulus apparently passed the rest of his days there. The Road from Ravenna
  • a lucullan feast
  • Marcus Lucullus is not to be confused with his brother Lucius Licinius Lucullus, who was busy at the time commanding Roman troops against Mithridates in Anatolia but is better known today for his love of gastronomyhence the adjective Lucullan. The Spartacus War
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