lustrous

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/ˈlʌ.stɹəs/

Definition of lustrous

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Having a glow or lustre.
    “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?”
    “There was not a cloud on the sky, save a few light vapours that congregated near the moon; but even they were lustrous with her presence.”
    “1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit 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.”
    “It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.”
    “The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations, Flood on flood, of our returning sun.”
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adj

  1. Having a glow or lustre.
    “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?”
    “There was not a cloud on the sky, save a few light vapours that congregated near the moon; but even they were lustrous with her presence.”
    “1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit 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.”
    “It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.”
    “The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations, Flood on flood, of our returning sun.”
  2. As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.

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Etymology

From lustre + -ous.

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