The word ostentatiously has appeared in 25 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 5 in “Fifth Avenue: The ‘Street of Dreams’ for Over a Century” by Charles V. Bagli:
As department stores (Altman’s, Lord & Taylor), hotels and office building also moved onto Fifth Avenue, wealthy families continued moving farther north, finally breaching 59th Street in the 1890s as the ostentatiously grand mansions became the fashion.
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