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lustrous, a.|ˈlʌstrəs|
[f. lustre n.1 + -ous. Cf. OF. lustreux.]
Having lustre, sheen, or gloss.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. i. 41 My sword and yours are kinne, good sparkes and lustrous. 1742Collins Oriental Eclog. i, But dark within, they drink no lustrous light. 1820Keats Ode to Nightingale 29 Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes. 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 162 Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland. 1870Dickens E. Drood ii, Thick, lustrous, well-arranged black hair and whiskers. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 135 The Romans manufactured a red lustrous ware on the banks of the Rhine.
b. fig. (Cf. lustre n.1 4.)
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xx. §1 A certaine..lustrous masse of matter chosen to giue glory..to the eloquence of discourses. 1626― Sylva §956 The more Lustrous the Imagination is, it filleth and fixeth the better. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Decay Beggars, The Blind Beggar..whose story doggrel rhymes..cannot so degrade or attenuate, but that some sparks of a lustrous spirit will shine through the disguisements. 1898G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 40 She saw the Lustrous, her great lord, appear.
Hence ˈlustrously adv., ˈlustrousness.
1839Bailey Festus (1848) 17/2 Like stars..They shall..be lost All meanly in its moonlike lustrousness. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 56 The clemency and moderation, which shine so lustrously in the English crown. 1884Harper's Mag. June 79/1 The steel..becomes lustrously white. 1892Henley Song Sword, etc. Lond. Voluntaries ii. 26 With this enchanted lustrousness. |