Definition of "lustre" []

• Chiefly British Variant of luster. (noun)

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• "I almost didn't but this issue, as the lustre is gone."
• "Theophilus, after paying the same compliment, wished, as it concerned himself, to know what had been said; and glided to the other end of the shop, to look for the word lustre in Entick's dictionary."
• "You have lived long enough in the East and, as your writings show, observantly enough, to detect the pearl which lurks in the kitchen-midden, and to note that its lustre is not dimmed nor its value diminished by its unclean surroundings."