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'Luxury' Originally Meant 'Lust'
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on 8/16/25, 2:24 AM with 1 comments
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axiologist
on 8/16/25, 2:24 AM
»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.«