lustrous
Adjective
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Adjective
lustrous
- Having a glow or lustre.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2,
- Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
- 1855, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass, New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232,
- Or Time and Space,
- Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,
- Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,
- Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,
- Be ye my Gods.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,
- It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.
- 1936, Wallace Stevens, "Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, p. 123,
- The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle
- Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,
- Flood on flood, of our returning sun.
- 2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, 2001, Chapter 1,
- The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2,
- As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.
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