Lustre

(n.) Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.

(n.) Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.

(n.) A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.

(n.) The appearance of the surface of a mineral as affected by, or dependent upon, peculiarities of its reflecting qualities.

(n.) A substance which imparts luster to a surface, as plumbago and some of the glazes.

(n.) A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, -- used for women's dresses.

(v. t.) To make lustrous.

(n.) Same as Luster.

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• But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• How white her lustre is, compared with the deep red of the bonfires! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That child had no doubts, asked herself no question, for she was but too content to see him with a lustre round his head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The pond was large, and had that perfect stillness and the dark lustre of very deep water. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Mrs. Peniston's icy drawing-room grate shone with a forbidding lustre: the fire, like the lamps, was never lit except when there was company. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• No tint could be more ravishing, no lustre more superb. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She had noted the slight, dry cough, the daily brightening cheek; nor could the lustre of the eye, and the airy buoyancy born of fever, deceive her. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Of its diamonds some have an oily lustre and are quite blue--many are of the finest quality and color. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Just then there appeared from a side-door old Mr. Turveydrop, in the full lustre of his deportment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It is desirable, therefore, that it shall be smoothed out and be given somewhat of a lustre before weaving. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The eyes, though deeply sunk and heavy, shone with a lustre frightful to behold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• He seemed the favourite child of fortune, and his untimely loss eclipsed the world, and shewed forth the remnant of mankind with diminished lustre. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Gerty lifted an apprehensive look to her pale face, in which the eyes shone with a peculiar sleepless lustre. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• On me school-triumphs shed but a cold lustre. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He liked the ease and glitter of the life, and the lustre conferred on him by being a member of this group of rich and conspicuous people. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• There were lustres burning overhead; far off there was a stage, a solemn green curtain, a row of footlights. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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