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lustre

/ˈlʌstə/ noun C1
  1. UK standard spelling of luster (shine, etc.). (countable, uncountable)

Plural lustres

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The armies fade, the lustre dies.
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 18 · C1
The colour which had been driven from her face returned for half a minute with an additional glow, and a smile of delight added lustre to her eyes, as she thought for that space of time that his affection and wishes must still be unshaken; but she would not be secure.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 312 · B2
When I looked at him he had finished reading the note, and his eyes had assumed the vacant, lack-lustre expression which showed mental abstraction.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 22 · B2
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 23 · C1

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