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Meanings of lustre in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sheen"
Examples for "sheen"
1
All was uncertain, save the golden sheen of sunlight in the east.
2
The purple sheen on the back of the neck is more brilliant.
3
With his youthful spirit and nice manner Walcott always worn a sheen.
4
Bonus points for the luminous sheen it leaves behind on your cheeks.
5
The dancing yellow sheen revealed the fair and anxious countenance of Elfride.
1
It comes down to the light refracting off all that extra shininess.'
2
Dresser, London, and McWilliams all wore business suits of varying ages and degrees of shininess.
3
She rubbed at the shininess, thinking: He's terribly good-looking.
4
The sheer shininess of it epitomises everything that went wrong with design in the noughties.
5
So when you throw slurs on our plumb newness and shininess, I've got the cards to call yuh.
Manner in which light interacts with a crystal, rock, or mineral's surface.
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Usage of lustre in English
1
Gibson's attempts to restore his former industry lustre have so far floundered.
2
Political parties have long lusted after the economic lustre of George Lee.
3
In some diseases the lustre of the eye increases, as in consumption.
4
Their excellence only appears with the greater lustre amidst the general defection.
5
I can see on the right the lustre of the high-tide sea.
6
I cause the lustre of precious stones and the colour of metals.
7
For the first time her beauty shone forth in all its lustre.
8
The sweat and strife of some careers must tarnish the brightest lustre.
9
The wild glare and savage lustre of the landscape are themselves awful.
10
Not so with heroism; this loses no lustre through time and distance.
11
And the countenance had not lost its freshness, the eye its lustre.
12
Mica is rare in them, and is of a fine silvery lustre.
13
Full of lustre and dignity, it now came upon the political stage.
14
Goods in a shop-window get fly-blown very quickly, and lose their lustre.
15
A range of other allowances add to the lustre of the post.
16
They were round, of a fiery green lustre, and appeared in motion.
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Lustre through the time
Lustre across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common