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单词 lack-lustre
释义 lack-lustre, a. and n.
(stress even or variable)
[f. lack v.1 + lustre.]
A. adj. Wanting in lustre or brightness: orig. of the eyes, countenance, etc., after Shakespeare.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 21 He drew a diall from his poake: And looking on it, with lacke-lustre eye, Sayes [etc.].1782V. Knox Ess. (1819) III. clxxii. 257 With hollow and lack-lustre eye.1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. vi, Through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole.1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. iii, From a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of grey.1883Black Shandon Bells xxxi, Existence in these foul-smelling lanes..seemed a lack-lustre kind of thing.
B. n. The absence of lustre or brightness. rare—1.
a1788Pott Chirurg. Wks. II. 92 The eyes have now a languor and a glassiness, a lack-lustre not easy to be described.1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts.
Hence lackˈlustrous a., wanting in lustre, dull.
1834New Monthly Mag. XL. 80 The most lacklustrous of all games.
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