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the art of spending like tomorrow already filed for bankruptcy and forgave you.
means Excessive spending or lavishness — going well beyond what's necessary, sensible, or affordable.
from From Latin 'extravagari,' to wander outside the bounds — 'extra' (outside) plus 'vagari' (to roam, the same root that gives us 'vagrant' and 'vague'). The word literally pictures something that strays past its proper limits. It first entered English as a term for wandering beyond, applied to thought and behavior that ranged too far afield, before settling into its modern sense of money and luxury roaming past all reason.
- Roman feast
- Cleopatra dissolved a pearl in vinegar, then drank it
- sumptuary laws
- Old states banned commoners from wearing too much gold
- gilded waste
- Versailles burned candles once, then tossed them daily
- word root
- Latin extravagari means to wander beyond bounds
- modern record
- A diamond-studded car wash exists in Dubai
versailles palace — louis xiv's 700-room château with 1,300 fountains built 1661-1710
dubai burj khalifa — 828-meter tower with gold-plated elevators, completed 2010
mughal taj mahal — shah jahan spent entire treasury on marble mausoleum, 1632-1653