lustre
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How to use lustre in a sentence
By now, some of the features that were notable at launch in fall 2020 have lost a bit of lustre.
Apple Watch Series 6 review: Still the best smartwatch for iPhone users | Billy Cadden | June 15, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThis stubborn resistance lent all the more lustre to the piety of our benignant Rulers.
The moon on every side her lustre shed,And all in robes of silver light arrayedThe trees with which the place was garlanded.
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi | Giacomo LeopardiIn quiet shade the sombre valley lay,While all the little hills around were clothedWith the soft lustre of the dewy moon.
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi | Giacomo LeopardiVery compact and fine-grained reddish granular quartz, with a glistening lustre, and flat conchoidal fracture.
Herbert rode up to him, as he stood staring with dazed, lack-lustre eyes at the company.
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British Dictionary definitions for lustre
US luster
/ (ˈlʌstə) /
reflected light; sheen; gloss
radiance or brilliance of light
great splendour of accomplishment, beauty, etc
a substance used to polish or put a gloss on a surface
a vase or chandelier from which hang cut-glass drops
a drop-shaped piece of cut glass or crystal used as a decoration on a chandelier, vase, etc
a shiny metallic surface on some pottery and porcelain
(as modifier): lustre decoration
mineralogy the way in which light is reflected from the surface of a mineral. It is one of the properties by which minerals are defined
to make, be, or become lustrous
Origin of lustre
1Derived forms of lustre
- lustreless or US lusterless, adjective
- lustrous, adjective
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