lustrous

CEFRC1

/ˈlʌ.stɹəs/

adjective

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There was not a cloud on the sky, save a few light vapours that congregated near the moon; but even they were lustrous with her presence.
Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.

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Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isa...
There was not a cloud on the sky, save a few light vapours that congregated near the moon; but even they were lustrous with her presence.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Evening Alone”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 304
It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.
The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations, Flood on flood, of our returning sun.
1936, Wallace Stevens, “Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1971, page 123
The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.
2000, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, published 2001

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From lustre + -ous.