Lustre
['lʌstə] or ['lʌstɚ]
Definition
(n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
(n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.
(n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.
(n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.
(n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.
(n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.
(v. t.) To make lustrous.
(n.) Same as Luster.
Typist: Rachel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Written also Luster.] [1]. Brightness, brilliancy, splendor, gleam, radiance, resplendence, refulgence.[2]. Distinction, repute, renown, eminence, celebrity, glory, honor, ECLAT.[3]. Chandelier, CANDELABRUM.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Brightness, splendor, brilliancy, effulgence, glory, renown,[See EFFULGENCE]
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Definition
n. brightness gloss splendour: (fig.) renown: a candlestick ornamented with pendants of cut-glass: the characteristic appearance of a bright metallic surface or of air within glass under water as seen under certain angles of total reflection: a dress material having a highly finished surface: a glaze applied to porcelain.—adjs. Lus′treless destitute of lustre; Lus′trous bright: shining: luminous.—adv. Lus′trously.
n. a period of five years: (orig.) the solemn offering for the purification of the Roman people made by one of the censors at the conclusion of the census taken every five years.—adj. Lus′tral relating to or used in lustration: of or pertaining to a lustre.—n. Lustrā′tion a purification by sacrifice: act of purifying.—adj. Lus′trical pertaining to purification by lustration.
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Examples
- But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How white her lustre is, compared with the deep red of the bonfires! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- That child had no doubts, asked herself no question, for she was but too content to see him with a lustre round his head. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The pond was large, and had that perfect stillness and the dark lustre of very deep water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mrs. Peniston's icy drawing-room grate shone with a forbidding lustre: the fire, like the lamps, was never lit except when there was company. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No tint could be more ravishing, no lustre more superb. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She had noted the slight, dry cough, the daily brightening cheek; nor could the lustre of the eye, and the airy buoyancy born of fever, deceive her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Of its diamonds some have an oily lustre and are quite blue--many are of the finest quality and color. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Just then there appeared from a side-door old Mr. Turveydrop, in the full lustre of his deportment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is desirable, therefore, that it shall be smoothed out and be given somewhat of a lustre before weaving. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The eyes, though deeply sunk and heavy, shone with a lustre frightful to behold. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He seemed the favourite child of fortune, and his untimely loss eclipsed the world, and shewed forth the remnant of mankind with diminished lustre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Gerty lifted an apprehensive look to her pale face, in which the eyes shone with a peculiar sleepless lustre. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- On me school-triumphs shed but a cold lustre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He liked the ease and glitter of the life, and the lustre conferred on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There were lustres burning overhead; far off there was a stage, a solemn green curtain, a row of footlights. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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