Obs. [a. F. luxure (13th c. in Littré), ad.L. luxuria: see LUXURY.] = LUXURY 1.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., III. pr. vii. 62 (Camb. MS.). Who-soeuere wole remembryn hym of hyse luxures, he shal wel vndyrstonde þat [etc.].
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 245. The Philosophre … conseileth to a king, That he the surfet of luxure Schal tempre.
