Definition of Resplendent

Respite

RESPLENDENT adjective

	Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge, or affirming his consequence in the Scheme of Things as an elemental unit of a parade. The Knights of Dominion were so resplendent in their velvet- and-gold that their masters would hardly have known them. 'Chronicles of the Classes'

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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