Gatsbyesque
adjective
ostentatious, lavish, extravagant, i.e. resembling the life of Jay Gatsby
Examples
Newport has Gatsbyesque homes.
Word Origin
The Great Gatsby was a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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