Definition of "sumptuous"

Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,He sees his little lot the lot of all;Sees no contiguous palace rear its headTo shame the meanness of his humble shed;No costly lord the sumptuous banquet dealTo make him loathe his vegetable meal;

1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

I wandered on until I came to a sumptuous palace with a garden adorned with fountains and fishponds, and groves and flowers, and orchards laden with delicious fruit.

1829, Washington Irving, The Alhambra‎, archived from the original on 8 September 2015

It was a sumptuous nature, perhaps, that could not be brought to regard money; a natural generosity and kindness; and possibly a petty vanity that was pleased with praise, even with the praise of waiters and cabmen.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850

Cabaye pulled all the strings in a dominant home performance and capped a majestic individual display with a sumptuous first-time finish into the far corner for his second goal of the afternoon.

2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport‎