Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gorgeous

Gorgeous , adjective

[Old French gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; compare Old French gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and French gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Compare Gorge, n.]

Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.
Cloud-land, gorgeous land. — Coleridge
Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer. — Shakespeare