lux

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Jonathan Lighter  wrote:
>
> A CNN travel maven calls a resort in Montana "very intimate, very
> beautiful, and very lux."
>
> Not "de luxe."
>
> Lux. Maybe for "luxurious." Or maybe for the soap.

"Luxe" for "luxurious" is in various dictionaries. M-W dates it to 1888.

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