Meaning

Having a glow or lustre..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a glow or lustre.
2. As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.

Example Sentences

1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit Or Time and Space, Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous, Or some fair shape I viewing, worship, Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night, Be ye my Gods.

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?

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.

It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.

The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations, Flood on flood, of our returning sun.

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.

Word Forms

• more lustrous
• most lustrous

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