lustrous

From lustre + -ous.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌ.stɹəs/

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lustrous (comparative more lustrous, superlative most lustrous)

1. Having a glow or lustre.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     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?

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, [1]

     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.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd‎^[2], London: Constable & Co.:

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

   • 1936, Wallace Stevens, “Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1971, page 123:

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

   • 2000, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, published 2001:

     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.

2. As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.