lustre
noun
a variant of luster.
lustreless
-
a word derived from
lustre.
Example Sentences
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Bjørn Hansen, in “Novel 11,” lives a quiet life in the provinces, where he is troubled by the lustreless, arbitrary nature of his existence.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
Nearly all "antique Satsuma" sold today is spurious, distinguished first by lustreless colors which result from artificial aging and second by crackles wide enough to have rubbled into them the grime of spurious centuries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The animal usually shows its lack of proper nourishment, being pot-bellied with a dull lustreless coat and a general appearance of undernourishment.
From Time Magazine Archive
I see it as a night scene by El Greco: a hundred houses, at once conventional and grotesque, crouching under a sullen, overhanging sky and a lustreless moon.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
He is a most deplorable-looking man, very tall and thin, with faded, lustreless gray eyes, hollow, sallow cheeks, and a very lank, ugly, straight-haired beard, light brown in the middle.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
