Lucite

[loo-sahyt]

Trademark.

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 of lucite

From Lucite platforms to S&M detailing, this season's crop of must-have heels are fit for a lady of the night.
You Paid What for Those Shoes?
Rebecca Dana
March 29, 2010
She climbed up to the stage in her Lucite heels, wearing a bright red kimono with her name sewn onto the back.
The Stripper Who Lost a Breast
Melissa Lion
August 21, 2009

Historical Examples of lucite

He had built an underwater case for it from stainless steel and Lucite.
The Wailing Octopus
Harold Leland Goodwin
Both were dressed in what looked like workmen's overalls made of lucite chain-mail, or knitted glow-worms.
Freudian Slip
Franklin 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 Time
Noel 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 Planet
Henry 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.)).