(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Disney's new chief executive, Bob Iger, has wasted no time restoring some lustre to the Magic Kingdom.
(2) When that lustre goes, however, we're just left with a large, unpleasant shop.
(3) The once pristine Boulevard Mobutu has lost its lustre.
(4) The macular changes consisted of an orange-like ophthalmoscopic appearance and a decreased macular lustre.
(5) The prime minister's officials played down the significance of the decision, which has taken some of the lustre off his coup of becoming the first European leader invited to Washington for talks with Obama since his inauguration in January.
(6) But has Frances botched her chances with lack-lustre flavour?
(7) For Max Hastings, as for Gove, the looming threat of a German Europe justified Britain's cause in the first world war and gives undying lustre to our boys' sacrifice in the trenches.
(8) Natalie Maines and the sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison have the lustre of women raised on healthy diets and quality grooming products.
(9) He may lack broadcasting experience, but his successful transformation of a much-loved British brand that had lost its lustre is seen by some as providing the perfect template for an ITV renaissance.
(10) During the long period when Caravaggio’s name had lost its lustre, many of his paintings found themselves reattributed to these Utrecht painters and vice versa: at some point 70% of the paintings in the National Gallery exhibition were said to be by Caravaggio.
(11) As a direct ingredient it would be easy to identify, but unfortunately mica remains as part of a complex mix of materials that are used to make colour pigments and lustres.” Boyd says the company has not knowingly purchased any materials containing natural mica since 2014.
(12) While the theory runs that the No 7's disquiet is due more to pay-rise jockeying than a love deficit of the Bernabéu, his performances have not lost lustre despite Madrid's poor start to La Liga.
(13) With 3D tickets costing on average 30% more at Odeon and Vue cinemas than other films, and with the added cost of glasses, which small children and those who wear contact lenses and spectacles often find uncomfortable, the format is losing its lustre.
(14) A method for tooth surface lustre measurements with a scanning reflectance sensor system is described.
(15) However, the Gujarat model begins to lose its lustre if you look at other development indicators.
(16) There are policies aplenty but the issue is how they hang together and whether Miliband possesses the strategic skills and has sufficient supporters, including among the Blairites and trade unions, as well as the personal lustre to deliver at a price the electorate is willing to pay.
(17) Pyne said on Wednesday the changes would add “lustre” to the parliament.
(18) Equally, his distinctive voice added lustre to the TV version of Animal Farm (1999), as Boxer.
(19) (5) Clinically the non-gamma2 amalgams are remarkable for superior marginal integrity and, seemingly, also for improved persistence of surface lustre.
(20) Erdoğan is regarded as having lost much of his international lustre.
Lustrous
Definition:
(a.) Bright; shining; luminous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
(2) There’s the way my character Henman fist-pumps when successfully finishing a date (not a euphemism), and the way he looks just like me, except with a better tan, less-British teeth and the ability to suddenly sprout lustrous golden locks like Kid Rock dipped head-first in a bath of Timotei and lemon juice: The guy out of Hanson is ageing well... On a more serious note, there’s the way you can choose to be gay or straight: a feature introduced without fuss, but which makes Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood more progressive than the way most (not all, thankfully) traditional games address sexuality, if they do at all.
(3) They’re in the business of selling you the $11 beer to you once you’re inside the stadium.” Today’s athletic amphitheatres last just a few decades before being thrown away for more lustrous replacements.
(4) As well as earning him lustrous reviews, it meant that Hytner never need worry about money again.
(5) Shot in a lustrous but melancholy monochrome entirely appropriate to the movie's sombre tone, Nebraska is less about a quest for a million bucks than a search for meaning late in life, and the sadness that comes when we realise there isn't any.
(6) Smooth and lustrous surfaces were obtained with finishing discs, in contrast to techniques using other finishing instruments.
(7) Evaluation of the patient's intestinal abnormality was aided by the use of magnifying endoscopy; the duodenal villi were lustrous and swollen and of various size, a pattern different from that previously described for intestinal lymphangiectasia.
(8) With Gordon Willis’s gorgeous cinematography, Manhattan is rendered in a lustrous, glowing monochrome, fetishing the city, erasing its poverty and crime – then at its notorious zenith – and making of it a shangri la of sophistication.
(9) Whatever, its omnipresence on all Drake’s albums carves out a whole lustrous landscape that has seldom been touched and certainly never bettered by his singer-songwriter peers.
(10) Geopolitical pageantry of this sort burnishes the already lustrous advantages of incumbency.
(11) Dead straight hair can be grown into thick, lustrous braids that stretch to the middle of the back, even to the waist.
(12) It is a mystery as baffling as what Dorian Grey-like bargain Bateman, 45, struck to maintain such lustrous hair (seriously, it puts Kate Middleton’s to shame) that a man who has been acting since the age of 13 (in US sitcoms Silver Spoons and Valerie ), who was, by his own admission, a “cut-up” in his 20s with a taste for alcohol and drugs, but is now, via some classy supporting roles ( Juno , Up in the Air ), a bona-fide comedy leading man ( Horrible Bosses , Identity Thief ) can be so darned nice.
(13) The internal surface of a normal duct was lustrous and smooth.
(14) Many local shoppers have turned toward more lustrous megamalls in outer suburbs.
(15) It is possible to endoscopically diagnose lymphangiomas because they are lustrous and smooth on the surface, pliable on compression, and half of them have a stalk or a waist at the base.
(16) A new dynamic visual illusion is reported: contrast reversal of a horizontal and vertical plaid pattern (produced by adding two orthogonal sinusoidal gratings) causes the pattern to appear as an array of lustrous diamonds, cut by sharp lines into a diagonal lattice structure.
(17) Pretty much every scene is filmed in lustrous slow-motion, from a coin toss to the Blinders hacking away at rivals with their razor-fronted caps.
(18) Although actually many millions of miles apart, the two planets will appear close together and both are shining lustrously.
(19) Linda Winer, Newsday : Menzel doesn't have much vocal variety, but that sound – soft, medium, loud – has a lustrous integrity.