Unlustrous
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not lustrous; without lustre.
"[S]hould I […] join gripes with hands / Made hard with hourly falſhood (falſhood as / With labour) then lye peeping in an eye, / Base and unluſtrous as the ſmoaky light / That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit, / That all the plagues of hell ſhould at one time / Encounter ſuch revolt."
Example
More examples"[S]hould I […] join gripes with hands / Made hard with hourly falſhood (falſhood as / With labour) then lye peeping in an eye, / Base and unluſtrous as the ſmoaky light / That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit, / That all the plagues of hell ſhould at one time / Encounter ſuch revolt."
Etymology
From un- + lustrous.
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