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"text": "metallic luster... pearly luster... the diamond's luster...",
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"text": "1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses Book III, The Story of Cadmus, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/10587/pg10587-images.html\nThe scorching sun was mounted high, / In all its lustre, to the noonday sky.",
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"ref": "1810, William Blake, Milton: A Poem in Two Books, Book I, 1-5",
"text": "Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet’s Song!\nRecord the journey of immortal Milton through your realms\nOf terror & mild moony lustre, in soft sexual delusions\nOf varied beauty, to delight the wanderer and repose\nHis burning thirst & freezing hunger! […]",
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"ref": "1922, E. R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, Chapter VIII,",
"text": "The canopy above the bed was a mosaic of tiny stones, jet, serpentine, dark hyacinth, black marble, bloodstone, and lapis lazuli, so confounded in a maze of altering hue and lustre that they might mock the palpitating sky of night.",
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"text": "2001, James Wood, Introduction to Saul Bellow, Collected Stories, New York: Viking, p. xvii,\nCuriously enough, the stream of consciousness, for all its reputation as the great accelerator of description, actually slows down realism, asks it to dawdle over tiny remembrances, tiny details and lusters, to circle and return."
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"text": "the sun's luster... the luster of the minor stars...",
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"text": "After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.",
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"ref": "1730, James Thomson, “Autumn”, in Seasons, section 186",
"text": "When Autumn's yellow lustre gilds the world...",
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"text": "1970, S.Y. Agnon, \"Agunot\" in Twenty-One Stories, New York: Schocken Books, p. 30,\nTheir days of rest are wrested from them, their feasts are fasts, their lot is dust instead of luster."
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"ref": "1971, Cynthia Ozick, “The Butterfly and the Traffic Light”, in Collected Stories, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, published 2006, page 288",
"text": "But Main, High, and Central have no past; rather, their past is now. It is not the fault of the inhabitants that nothing has gone before them. Nor are they to be condemned if they make their spinal streets conspicuous, and confer egregious lustre and false acclaim on Central, High, or Main, and erect minarets and marquees indeed as though their city were already in dream and fable.",
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"sense": "brilliance, attractiveness or splendor",
"word": "փայլ"
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"word": "շուք"
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"word": "luister"
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"sense": "brilliance, attractiveness or splendor",
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"word": "splendeur"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "brilliance, attractiveness or splendor",
"word": "hohto"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "brilliance, attractiveness or splendor",
"tags": [
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"word": "éclat"
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"sense": "brilliance, attractiveness or splendor",
"word": "hinuhinu"
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "brilliance, attractiveness or splendor",
"tags": [
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"word": "नूर"
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"word": "şemedan"
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"text": "After the scandal, the idol lost his luster and could only get work in Vegas.",
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"ref": "1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, in The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Two Volumes: Volume I, Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, published 1892, page 37",
"text": "Thus err the many, who, entranced to find\nUnwonted lustre in some clearer mind,\nBelieve that Genius sets the laws at naught\nWhich chain the pinions of our wildest thought;",
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"ref": "1895, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 279, page 602",
"text": "[…] whose ancestors, says Clarendon, had been transported out of Normandy with the Conqueror, \"and had continued,\" says Sir Henry Wotton, \"about the space of four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great lustre […]\".",
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"ref": "2006, Florence Tamagne, A History of Homosexuality in Europe, Volume I & II: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939, New York: Algora, page 87",
"text": "The notion of two homosexuals living together more or less openly did not sit well with their neighbors, or even their friends, but Millthorpe took on a kind of symbolic luster as a kind of homosexual paradise.",
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"ref": "2023 February 11, Janan Ganesh, “After Germany's fall, which is the paragon nation?”, in FT Weekend, page 22",
"text": "Where else then, Denmark? Its misgivings about immigration have smudged some of the liberal lustre it once had.",
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"text": "Sure, the posh git spoke with fine lustre. 'S all a load of bollocks, though, innit?",
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"sense": "a shine, polish or sparkle",
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"sense": "a shine, polish or sparkle",
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"sense": "a shine, polish or sparkle",
"word": "Glanz"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a shine, polish or sparkle",
"word": "Lüster"
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"code": "haw",
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"word": "hinuhinu"
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"sense": "a shine, polish or sparkle",
"tags": [
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"word": "Schien"
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"sense": "a shine, polish or sparkle",
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"_dis1": "25 4 4 3 41 3 1 1 16 1 1 1 1",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "blesk",
"sense": "a shine, polish or sparkle",
"tags": [
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"word": "блеск"
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"tags": [
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"word": "лоск"
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"code": "ru",
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"_dis1": "25 4 4 3 41 3 1 1 16 1 1 1 1",
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "sijanije",
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"tags": [
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"word": "сияние"
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