splendour

English

Noun

splendour (usually uncountable, plural splendours)

1. (British spelling) Standard spelling of splendor.
   • 1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:

     If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.