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"text": "1892, Walt Whitman, \"Gods\" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, https://archive.org/details/leavesofgrass00whit\nOr Time and Space,\nOr shape of Earth divine and wondrous,\nOr some fair shape I viewing, worship,\nOr lustrous orb of sun or star by night,\nBe ye my Gods."
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"ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
"text": "It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.",
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"ref": "1936, Wallace Stevens, “Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1971, page 123",
"text": "The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle\nOf life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,\nFlood on flood, of our returning sun.",
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"ref": "2000, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, published 2001",
"text": "The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.",
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"roman": "blestjašt",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "блестящ"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "llustrós"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "閃亮"
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"code": "cmn",
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"roman": "shǎnliàng",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "光彩"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "loistava"
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "hohtava"
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"word": "kiiltävä"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "lustré"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "brillant"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "glänzend"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "lustroso"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "glänsande"
},
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"roman": "blyskučyj",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
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"word": "блискучий"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "nidik"
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"_dis1": "97 3",
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"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "gloyw"
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"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "llewy(r)chus"
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"As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant."
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},
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"ref": "1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.",
"text": "It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.",
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},
{
"ref": "1936, Wallace Stevens, “Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial”, in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1971, page 123",
"text": "The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle\nOf life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,\nFlood on flood, of our returning sun.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, Philip Pullman, chapter 1, in The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, published 2001",
"text": "The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blestjašt",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "блестящ"
},
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sijaešt",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "сияещ"
},
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "llustrós"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "閃亮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shǎnliàng",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "闪亮"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guāngcǎi",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "光彩"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zářivý"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lesklý"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "glansfuld"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "glanzend"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "loistava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "hohtava"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "kiiltävä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "lustré"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "brillant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "glänzend"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "fénylő"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "ragyogó"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "lonrach"
},
{
"code": "pdt",
"lang": "Plautdietsch",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "blank"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blestjaščij",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "блестящий"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "lustroso"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "glänsande"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "blyskučyj",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "блискучий"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "nidik"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "gloyw"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "having a glow or lustre",
"word": "llewy(r)chus"
}
],
"word": "lustrous"
}
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