"lusterless" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:",
          "text": "The lips were of the usual marble pallor. The eyes were lustreless.",
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          "ref": "1894, George du Maurier, “Part First”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, pages 11–12:",
          "text": "His thick, heavy, languid, lustreless black hair fell down behind his ears on to his shoulders, in that musicianlike way that is so offensive to the normal Englishman.",
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          "text": "His Chevrolet was larger, but old and unwashed; the mudguards had been dented, cut, welded; one door had been ducoed in a lustreless colour that did not exactly match […]",
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          "word": "lackluster"
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