coruscant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of coruscant
First recorded in 1475–85; from Latin coruscant-, stem of coruscāns, present participle of coruscāre “to quiver, flash,” derivative of coruscus “quivering, flashing”; -ant
Example Sentences
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I arrived just as he was finishing a daily medical ablution and found myself waiting in his studio, gawping at the new self-portrait in all its coruscant color.
From New York Times
Time foots it fleeter far Than all the surging crowd your beauty smites Like some coruscant star.
From Project Gutenberg
Between his thumb and forefinger glittered something exquisitely coruscant in the sunlight.
From Project Gutenberg
Upon the white velvet lining lay a pretty set of jewels—sapphires, rarely pellucid; then clear pendants sparkling like drops of deep sea-water frozen into coruscant solidity.
From Project Gutenberg
As those terrific forces struck her, the terrestrial cruiser became a vast pyrotechnic set piece, a dazzling fountain of coruscant brilliance: for the mirror held.
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