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luster
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a quality that outshines the usual [syn: lustre , brilliancy , splendor , splendour ] the visual property of something that shines with reflected light [syn: shininess , sheen , lustre ] a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain [syn: lustre ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB lose ▪ But more recently his results seems to have lost some of their luster . ▪ However, for Mr Hamlin, the Richmond bonds lost their luster in the repricing. ▪ As hospitals employ fewer registered nurses, nursing is ...
Wikipedia
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Luster is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ahrue Luster , guitarist, also played the piano Andrew Luster (born 1963), heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune and convicted multiple rapist Betty Luster (1922–2011), American television ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 shine, polish or sparkle. 2 By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor. 3 refinement, polish or quality. 4 A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character. 5 A substance that imparts lustre to a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gloss, radiance," 1520s, from Middle French lustre "gloss, radiance" (14c.), common Romanic (cognates: Spanish and Portuguese lustre , Rumanian lustru , Italian lustro "splendor, brilliancy"), from Latin lustrare "spread light over, brighten, illumine," ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luster \Lus"ter\ Lustre \Lus"tre\, n. [L. lustrum: cf. F. lustre.] A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. --Bolingbroke.
Usage examples of luster.
Luster in a nightshirt, his face unshaven and liberally spotted with calamine lotion.
The High Table on its dais was so far removed from the opposite end of the Hall that those who graced it could scarcely be expected to discern the countenances of those seated at the lower trestles, or even the central onesa state of affairs that, despite the blaze of countless girandoles, lusters, and candelabra, was exacerbated by the soft haze of steam and incense filling the air.
Sulla knew he would never attain, which only gave added luster to the humbler efforts of Quintus Gavius Myrto.
It was indeed a jacamar, of which the plumage shines with a metallic luster.
But at least the guns had brought a luster to his name, just as Kola predicted, He unwrapped the gin bottle, jammed the neck between his teeth and yanked the cork.
On the contrary, the passage of time had only added fresh luster to the legends of his swashbuckling days, in the wild times of Belit, the Shemitish she-pirate, and Red Ortho, and grim Zaporavo of Zingara.
His face was haggard, his eyes were vacant-looking and rimmed with red, his long yellow hair had lost most of its luster.
Forgers usually favored calcites and siderites to produce the characteristic pale or red-black luster of common fossils.
Her skin glowed with the soft luster of creamy satin, and through the cloth he saw the inward curve of her waist, amazingly small in its unlaced freedom, the trim and seductive roundness of her hips, and the lithe grace of her limbs.
Her hair was a mass of dark foam, at the burnished luster of which the dim light only hinted.
Some were casting aside immense shields, shields even larger than the glassy ones of the peltasts, though they shone with the luster of metal.
The coming siege had brought some good to someone, as the crowd of unfamiliar drinkers gathered in the Quiller s Mint proved, but it did take a bit of the luster offTin-wrights own advancement in the world.
These tiles are small and oblong, of every color under the sun, and possess an unapproached luster of glaze.
The buildings had been magnificently restored to their former luster by a host of Kundalan craftsfolk, much to the invidious talk of the other Bashkir families.
He would quarry the rock vein, provided it proved deep enough,, and become richly Dolley joined in the project wholeheartedly, tramping over the ground, securing rock samples, washing them, exulting when some displayed the beautiful pink-white luster of marble.