lustrous
adjUS /ˈlʌ.stɹəs/
Etymology From lustre + -ous.
1
Having a glow or lustre.
- 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?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]:
- 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.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:
4 more examples
- 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.
- It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
- The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations, Flood on flood, of our returning sun.1936, Wallace Stevens, “Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1971, page 123:
- 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.2000, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, published 2001:
2
As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.
- Derived terms
- illustrous, lustrously, lustrousness, nonlustrous, semilustrous, sublustrous, unlustrous