metallic luster
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of metallic luster
First recorded in 1785–95
Example Sentences
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All exhibit high thermal and electrical conductivity, metallic luster, and malleability.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Nonmetallic minerals may be shiny, although their vitreous shine is different from metallic luster.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Through its bed ran a brook, whose incrusted margin had a strange metallic luster, from the polluted waters here flowing; their source a sulphur spring, of vile flavor and odor, where many invalid pilgrims resorted.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
The body of this fish is shaped like the blade of a saber, and its skin has a bright, metallic luster like that of polished steel, hence the name.
From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane
Bluebottles, greenbottles, and all the flies of metallic luster were gathered at the Lucullan feast of corruption.
From The Mad Planet by Leinster, Murray
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