extravagance in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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extravagance [Brit ɪkˈstravəɡ(ə)ns, ɛkˈstravəɡ(ə)ns, Am ɪkˈstrævəɡəns] N

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to clamp down on extravagance
mettre un frein à
hopeless extravagance
incurable

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In spite of their extravagance, they contain many passages of great beauty.
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He regarded this, not so much as an extravagance, but rather as an aristocratic duty.
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Yet these exceptional extravagances came not of weakness but from excess of power.
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He was known for his wild antics, his practical jokes and his extravagance and frivolousness, which his father approved of wholeheartedly.
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The two of them would spend the evening railing against other people's extravagances while they shared a single glass of wine.
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He was described as a spendthrift prone to extravagance and light amusements.
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The 500 was just enough to live on without employment but without any extravagance.
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It would therefore seem there was little official approval for such extravagances, which were rarely committed to writing.
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He later developed a different style from his early feudal extravagances, of rural scenes intermingled with tragic incidents of town poverty and aristocratic splendor.
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This fortune he dissipated in collecting books and prints, in building, and in all kinds of extravagance except vicious ones.
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