Lucite
[loo-sahyt]
- a transparent or translucent plastic, any of a class of methyl methacrylate ester polymers.
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Examples from the Web for lucite
Contemporary Examples
From Lucite platforms to S&M detailing, this season's crop of must-have heels are fit for a lady of the night.
She climbed up to the stage in her Lucite heels, wearing a bright red kimono with her name sewn onto the back.
Historical Examples
He had built an underwater case for it from stainless steel and Lucite.
The Wailing OctopusHarold Leland Goodwin
Both were dressed in what looked like workmen's overalls made of lucite chain-mail, or knitted glow-worms.
Freudian SlipFranklin Abel
When I got back to the office I thought I'd just turn on the lucite and see what they might be up to next.
Nine Men in TimeNoel Miller Loomis
He got a block of lucite, a foot square on the end by two and a half feet long, out of a closet under the chart table.
Four-Day PlanetHenry Beam Piper
Word Origin and History for lucite
Lucite
1937, proprietary name (E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.) for a solid, transparent plastic, from Latin luc(i)-, from stem of lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)).
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