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"ref": "1864, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities, page 42",
"text": "Ointment, wherewith she sprinkles o'er her face, And lustrifies her beauty's dying grace.",
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"ref": "1883, V. Lescribleur (pseud.), The great anti-crinoline league, page 73",
"text": "So transformed, transfigured, lustrified, The Tip-tops' mighty halls, They were dumb, the Tip-tops, mystified, In their own treasured walls.",
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"ref": "1887, All the Year Round - Volume 39; Volume 59, page 79",
"text": "And that the ladies furthermore had a choice assortment of waters to make their faces shine, confections to clarify their skins, lip salves and scarlet cloths for the cheeks, and ointments for various purposes of lustrifying and beautifying the complexion.",
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"(obsolete) To give luster to; to make lustrous."
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"ref": "1850, Howard Taubman, Fashion; or Life in New York. A comedy in five acts, page 2",
"text": "Well now, p'raps you can lustrify my officials?",
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"ref": "1865, Heywood and Son's Up-to-date Collection of Nigger Songs and Recitations74",
"text": "After the introduction, which could be always raised from some immediate circumstance—he announced: “ Now in de flrs' place I'se gwine to 'splain dis her tex; second, I'se argufy de subjec ob de same; furd, I'se bound to lustrify de obscurities ob de passage; and in de fort and lass place I puts on de powerful rousin's.",
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"ref": "1895, E.E. Rogers, “What is one and one and Nothing”, in Book-keeper, volume 8, number 6, page 9",
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"(obsolete) To illuminate or clarify."
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},
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"ref": "1883, V. Lescribleur (pseud.), The great anti-crinoline league, page 73",
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},
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}
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