Lustrous
['lʌstrəs]
Definition
(adj.) brilliant; 'set a lustrous example for others to follow'; 'lustrous actors of the time' .
Edited by Joanne--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Bright; shining; luminous.
Typist: Virginia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Bright, shining, beaming, luminous, radiant, brilliant.
Checker: Rowena
Examples
- Some of them have large, lustrous eyes, but none of them have pretty faces. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Genessaret under these lustrous stars has nothing repulsive about it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the process the leather is made smooth, lustrous, supple and waterproof. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then, forth from its magnificent case came the jewel; not lustrous in itself, but quite the contrary. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Living in the midst of its grandeur are most marvelous and delicate creatures that ceaselessly toil to strew the ocean’s bed with lustrous gems--pearls. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Does the thought-contracted brow of the local Sage or the lustrous eye of local Beauty inquire whose fortunes? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She could only watch the brilliant little discs of the daisies veering slowly in travel on the dark, lustrous water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That is, it was unglazed, simply baked clay; _lustrous_ or _semi-glazed_ and _enamelled_ having a harder surface. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Checker: Rowena