Definition of Lustrousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lustrousness

lustre
lustred
lustreless
lustrelessly
lustrelessness
lustres
lustreware
lustrical
lustrine
lustrines
lustring
lustrings
lustrious
lustrous
lustrously
lustrousness (current term)
lustrousnesses
lustrum
lustrums
lusts
lustwort
lusty
lusus
lusus naturae
lusus naturæ
lususes
lutanist
lutanists
lutarious
lutation

Literary usage of Lustrousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"... but at the same time, less accurate form— lustrousness belongs to our notion of metals, Being a metal is part of the notion of Indium ..."

2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"Helping the utterance of my soul's full choice, Will be the words made richer by just use, And have new meaning in their lustrousness. You know these jewels ..."

3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman (1894)
"... glory of radiant wrinkles, in the centre of which glowed two small globes, like opals, but with a dusky lustrousness that no opal ever yet attained. ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1857)
"According to Pliny, too, a very beautiful flax was produced near Tarraco (Tarragona), in Nearer Spain, its lustrousness being ascribed to the virtues of the ..."

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