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LUSTRE (lustra)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lustre mean?
• LUSTRE (noun)
The noun LUSTRE has 3 senses:
1. a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain
2. a quality that outshines the usual
3. the visual property of something that shines with reflected light
Familiarity information: LUSTRE used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A surface coating for ceramics or porcelain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
luster; lustre
Hypernyms ("lustre" is a kind of...):
glaze (a coating for ceramics, metal, etc.)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A quality that outshines the usual
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
brilliancy; luster; lustre; splendor; splendour
Hypernyms ("lustre" is a kind of...):
brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The visual property of something that shines with reflected light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
luster; lustre; sheen; shininess
Hypernyms ("lustre" is a kind of...):
effulgence; radiance; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)
Derivation:
lustrous (reflecting light)
Context examples
On the neck lay a pale reflection like moonlight; the same faint lustre touched the train of thin clouds from which rose and bowed this vision of the Evening Star.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He became quite quiet, and went and sat on the edge of his bed resignedly, and looked into space with lack-lustre eyes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
His eyes went lack-lustre, and he lay back on the pillow, pulling the blanket about him and up to his chin.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But her earnest cordiality, and her quiet beauty, shone with the gentler lustre for it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
An element with atomic symbol In, atomic number 49, and atomic weight 114.8; a very soft, silvery-white metal with a brilliant lustre.
(Indium, NCI Thesaurus)
Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Of a sudden, however, there came a change, for a dash of bright color flickered up on to either cheek, and her lids were slowly raised again upon eyes which sparkled with such lustre as Alleyne had never seen in human eyes before, while their gaze was fixed intently, not on the company, but on the dark tapestry which draped the wall.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The colour which had been driven from her face, returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Twenty Eight, I understood, was also a bright particular star; but it was his misfortune to have his glory a little dimmed by the extraordinary lustre of Twenty Seven.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The thing was as impossible as to mould my irregular features to his correct and classic pattern, to give to my changeable green eyes the sea-blue tint and solemn lustre of his own.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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