lux

[George Thompson]

The word may be 125 yers old, but I don't recall hearing it until just a
few years ago.  I only hear it in commercials.  "lux accommodations" or
"lux amenities".

My email spell checker doesn't recognize it, I see.

GAT

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

> 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.
>
> --bgz
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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