- plural of lux.
luces
Americannoun
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The dressing ritual concludes as she puts on her ornate scarlet and gold jacket – the traje de luces, or suit of lights.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2017
He made his debut in Mexico in 1961 in a borrowed traje de luces, harbouring professional ambitions until he was gored and battered in Juarez by a beast named Conquistador.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2017
One January day, he wrote, in a mix of Spanish and English: “Hector olvido luces ‘on’ —dead battery” after I left my car lights on while studying at UC Irvine.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2013
All his successors gone before him have done't, and all his ancestors that come after him may; they may give the dozen white luces in their coat.
From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
A redde purple velvet cope, with the border of imagrie, having the assumption of our Ladie behinde and three little angels about her and the greater being full of floure de luces, 46s. 8d.;—1557,
From St. John's College, Cambridge by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
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