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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sheen
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A sheen of perspiration soon covered Ron's forehead.
▪ A light sheen of perspiration covered his upper lip.
▪ Her elegant dress had a silver sheen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A fine sheen of sweat glazed his heavy, quivering jowls.
▪ A nesting cormorant glared at us with green eyes, its black feathers glossed with a purple sheen.
▪ In their studio, gritty Delta edges were given a smooth, appealing, urban sheen that crossed easily over racial lines.
▪ The songs featured tight, focused melodies polished to a bright sheen with stacks of overdubbed guitars and studio effects.
▪ They were cloudy colours, pale and subtle with the milky sheen of pearls.
▪ Years later, I would think of their sheen as being rather like the membranes enclosing viruses I had read about.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sheen

Sheen \Sheen\, v. i. To shine; to glisten. [Poetic]

This town, That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.
--Byron.

Sheen

Sheen \Sheen\, n. Brightness; splendor; glitter. ``Throned in celestial sheen.''
--Milton.

Sheen

Sheen \Sheen\, a. [OE. sehene, AS. sci['e]ne, sc?ne, sc?ne, splendid, beautiful; akin to OFries. sk?ne, sk?ne, OS. sc?ni, D. schoon, G. sch["o]n, OHG. sc?ni, Goth, skanus, and E. shew; the original meaning being probably, visible, worth seeing. It is not akin to E. shine. See Shew, v. t.] Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny. [R., except in poetry.]

This holy maiden, that is so bright and sheen.
--Chaucer.

Up rose each warrier bold and brave, Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.
--Fairfax.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sheen

"shining, brightness," 1602 (first attested in "Hamlet" iii.2), noun use of adjective sheene "beautiful, bright," from Old English scene, sciene "beautiful; bright, brilliant," from Proto-Germanic *skauniz "conspicuous" (cognates: Old Frisian skene, Middle Dutch scone, Dutch schoon, Old High German skoni, German schön "fair, beautiful;" Gothic skaunja "beautiful"), from PIE root *skeue- "to pay attention, perceive" (see caveat). Meaning "film of oil on water" is from 1970.\n

\nAs an adjective now only in poetic or archaic use, but in Middle English used after a woman's name, or as a noun, "fair one, beautiful woman."

Wiktionary
sheen

Etymology 1

  1. (context rare poetic English) beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny. n. splendor; radiance; shininess. v

  2. To shine; to glisten. Etymology 2

    n. The letter ش in the Arabic script.

WordNet
sheen

n. the visual property of something that shines with reflected light [syn: shininess, luster, lustre]

Wikipedia
Sheen

Sheen may refer to:

Sheen (film)

Sheen is a 2004 Indian Bollywood film produced directed by Ashok Pandit. It stars Raj Babbar, Tarun Arora and Sheen in pivotal roles.

Sheen (surname)

Sheen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Barry Sheen (1918–2005), British judge
  • Billy Sheen (born 1989), English rugby league footballer
  • Bobby Sheen (1941–2000), American singer
  • Brian Sheen (born 1952), American complementary and alternative medicine practitioner
  • Caroline Sheen (born 1975), Welsh actress
  • Charlie Sheen (born 1965), American actor
  • Danielle Sheen (born 1990), English footballer
  • Edna Sheen (1944–2012), American make-up artist
  • Everett Sheen (born 1986), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979), Catholic archbishop, television evangelist, sainthood candidate
  • Gillian Sheen (born 1928), British fencer (won Olympic gold)
  • Graham Sheen (born 1952), British bassoonist
  • Grant Sheen (born 1974), English cricketer
  • Jacqueline Sheen (born 1963), model
  • Martin Sheen (born 1940), American actor
  • Michael Sheen (born 1969), Welsh actor
  • Mickey Sheen (1927–1987), American jazz drummer
  • Ruth Sheen (born 1952), English actress

Fictional characters:

  • Emma Sheen, a character in the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Usage examples of "sheen".

Although the shrine was dark and fading sunlight had climbed halfway up the walls, laying a bronze sheen on the cloudily opaque torsoes of the gigantic soldiers, everything in the square apse shone with an intense particularity.

He glanced about, at the cage, the obliviously moving aliens, at the slick sheen of mercury-like substance that covered the armature of the birdcage.

The Caribbean sun was setting, sheening the distant ocean horizon a glittering copper rose, but Aurora scarcely saw the beauty.

Now the surface had a rusty sheen to it, mirroring a redness in the sky that came, Ralph Bales believed, from garbage pumped into the air by refineries outside of Wood River, across the Mississippi.

A woman who seemed old and bent as the tree opened it and saw him where he stood, the broken moonlight sheening off helm and byrnie and his horse, which was the colour of mist, cropping the frosty grass behind him.

In the torchlight, the drumhead had the russet hue of well-tanned oxhide, but a sheen as of tiny scales hinted of some other origin.

It sported a much duller sheen than its larger relative and was no more than a couple of inches tall.

To the side of the platform where the eldress sat rested a small wooden box, carved with a constellation of stars and polished to a velvet sheen.

Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us.

Some were doubled over from the weight of fungal growth they carried on their bodies, some were thin and partially eaten away, covered in only a sheen of mold.

The second moon, the Gifter, was high above the valley, illuminating the rocks opposite with a silvery sheen.

Without the filing cabinets the fungus growing in the corners showed acid green and livid purple, with a wet sheen like the innards of a slaughtered beast.

The rows of pillars that lined the central hall were each carved from a single iroko tree and lacquered to a deep sheen.

Lashes and brows as black as the Towers of Kaf framed her eyes, which, despite the pull of fatigue, still met his with the sheen of interest.

And those spines, silvery in sheen, suggested ghoulish animation, the existence of which Kaw could sense as a nameless and menacing unease.