glister
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- glisteringly adverb
Etymology
Origin of glister
1350–1400; Middle English; akin to glisten
Example Sentences
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Brian Sewell, enemy of conceptualism and all things contemporary, once wrote, "They offer nothing but a moment's glister and demand no contemplation."
From The Guardian • May 18, 2013
United head for Coventry, where they hope to glister in front of Gould.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2013
But those verses glister, still, if you only give them a chance, their fathomless shadows a mystery, and a balm.
From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2012
He looked hopefully at Bogert, who was still blandly neat and whose inner tension was perhaps betrayed only by the trace of glister at his temples.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
The palm trees took on the hard glister of metal leaves.
From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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