nitid
Adjective
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Adjective
nitid
- Bright; lustrous; shining.
- Synonyms: nitty
- 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours
- Thus we restore Old pieces of Dirty Gold to a clean and nitid Yellow, by putting them into the Fire, and into Aqua-fortis, which take off the adventitious Filth that made that pure Metall look of a Dirty Colour.
- 1864, Francis P. Pascoe, Longicornia Malayana in Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Third Series, Vol. III
- mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...
- (obsolete, of a, person) Festively or smartly dressed; spruce#Adjective|spruce; fine.
- 1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh
- yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!
- 1852, Anon., Memoirs of a Man of the World in Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. XXXI
- My sable friend, for he was an eccclesiastic, was, however, not nitid as usual. There was a looseness of trousers, and a sloppiness of shoe, that savoured no longer of St. James's-street.
- 1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh
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