refletn.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ix. 207 The world wore a North Pole colouring: all its lights and tints looked like the ‘reflets’ of white, or violet, or pale green gems. [footnote] Find me an English word as good, reader, and I will gladly dispense with the French word. Reflections won't do.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 258 Black wool, with a silvery ‘reflet’, or iron gray.

1876 H. James Let. 22 Jan. in L. Edel & I. D. Lind Parisian Sketches (1957) iv. 35 If a certain number of persons have been found to agree that such and such an enormous sum is a proper valuation of a picture, a book, or a song at a concert, it is very hard not to be rather touched with awe and to see a certain golden reflet in the performance.

1888 Athenæum 6 Oct. 454/1 The pottery..errs in the extreme of coppery tints and too emphatic reflets of the metallic sort.

1923 A. S. Hardy Things Remembered 70 Natives, while cultivating their gardens, still find fragments of pottery and bits of the reflet métallique so dear to collectors of porcelain.

1931 Burlington Mag. Jan. 40/2 The arrangement is that of tile-work, while the style of the figures and that of the arabesque ground is similar to that of the reflet-lustre tiles found at Rayy.

1886 S. G. W. Benjamin Persia & the Persians 287 The reflêt tiles in which a copper tint is prominent may be considered as generally coming from Nathenz.

1903 Messenger Jan. 71 The baron..was sitting on a rich blue Khorassan rug before a mantelpiece faced with reflêt tiles of immense value.