What is "lusters"

Usage examples of "lusters".

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 ones—a 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.

This huge space was lit by metallic lusters pendant on thirty-foot chains, and flambeaux on brass pedestals.

An improvised buffet ornamented with little lusters, vases, glasses, plates of tarts, cakes, bottles, etc.

On the central table, reserved for the princes, princesses, and members of the corps diplomatique, glittered an epergne of inestimable price, brought from London, and around this chef-d'oeuvre of chased gold reflected under the light of the lusters a thousand pieces of most beautiful service from the manufactories of Sevres.

There were a dozen huge candelabra burning as well as the gas jets along walls and ceiling—the light caught in the glittering festoons of crystal lusters, in the long mirrors that ranged one wall, and in the black glass of the twelve-foot windows along the other, all thrown back in an unholy halo around her.

The section appeared devoted to textiles: silks with many-colored lusters of the sort favored by the Eisels.