lustrousadj.
/ˈlʌstrəs/, U.S. /ˈləstrəs/ a. Having lustre, sheen, or gloss.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [adjective] > lustrous or shining with reflected light
browna1000
brightOE
cleara1300
slighta1300
burnedc1384
burnishedc1400
orientc1400
orientalc1450
sheeningc1480
refulgenta1500
silken1513
lustrantc1550
glossy1556
crisp1567
lustring1582
shiny1590
of shine1601
glossful1606
lustry1610
lustrousa1616
nitent1616
illustriousa1626
polished1649
lustrious1651
sheeny1673
shining1674
splendy1683
glazy1724
smolt1837
lustreful1843
lustred1858
sheened1920
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) ii. i. 40 My sword and yours are kinne, good sparkes and lustrous . View more context for this quotation
1757 W. Collins Oriental Eclogues i. 3 But, dark within, they drink no lust'rous light.
1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 109 Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 108 Slides the bird o'er lustrous woodland.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ii. 6 Thick, lustrous, well-arranged black hair and whisker.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 135 The Romans manufactured a red lustrous ware on the banks of the Rhine.
b. figurative. (Cf. lustre n.1 4.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > splendour, magnificence, or pomp > [adjective]
wlonkOE
kine-wurtheOE
reala1325
rialc1330
royalc1400
wlonkfulc1400
statelyc1415
pompousc1425
imperial?1435
pontificalc1440
sumptuous1472
magnific1490
magnificenta1530
statelike1534
pompatic1535
magnificala1538
princely1539
portly1548
regal1561
queen-like?1571
haughty1585
portlike1587
Minerva-like1598
lustrous1605
pompatical1610
pontificial1613
commandinga1616
pompal1616
grand1622
splendid1624
pontifician1629
regifical1656
queenly1791
presidential1804
angeliferous1837
slashing1854
sultanesque1862
pageanted1902
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ss4 A certaine..lustrous masse of matter chosen to giue glory..to the eloquence of discourses. View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §956 The more Lustrous the Imagination is, it filleth and fixeth the better.
1822 C. Lamb Compl. Decay of Beggars in Elia 1st Ser. 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.
1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 40 She saw the Lustrous, her great lord, appear.
Derivatives
ˈlustrously adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [adverb] > lustrously
oriently?1518
illustriously1638
glossily1727
lustrously1849
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adverb]
gloriouslya1340
greatlya1400
flourishly1558
famously1579
heroically1583
renownedly1583
distinguishedlya1745
brilliantly1813
lustrously1849
legendarily1953
1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 56 The clemency and moderation, which shine so lustrously in the English crown.
1884 Harper's Mag. June 79/1 The steel..becomes lustrously white.
ˈlustrousness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > [noun] > shining or being luminous
shininga1300
lighteninga1382
lucencec1485
overshining1587
emication1633
luminosity1634
outshining1648
luminousness1668
fulsion1680
affulsion1730
raying1787
lumination1794
nebulosity1813
lustrousness1839
luminance1880
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 49 Like stars..They shall..be lost All, meanly in its moonlike lustrousness.
1892 W. E. Henley London Voluntaries in Song of Sword ii. 26 With this enchanted lustrousness.
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