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'Luxury' Originally Meant 'Lust'

merriam-webster.com

3 points by axiologist 4 months ago · 1 comment

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axiologistOP 4 months ago

»We associate luxury with comfort, quality, wealth, and aspiration. But it wasn’t always that way: the word originally meant lechery and lust in English.«

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