"nitid" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin nitidus.",
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      "form": "more nitid",
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          "ref": "1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours",
          "text": "Thus we restore Old pieces of Dirty Gold to a clean and nitid Yellow, by putting them into the Fire, and into Aqua-fortis, which take off the adventitious Filth that made that pure Metall look of a Dirty Colour.",
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          "ref": "1864, Francis P. Pascoe, “Longicornia Malayana”, in Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Third Series, Vol. III",
          "text": "mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...",
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        "Bright; lustrous; shining."
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          "ref": "1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh",
          "text": "yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!",
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          "ref": "1852, anonymous author, “Memoirs of a Man of the World”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXXI",
          "text": "My sable friend, for he was an eccclesiastic, was, however, not nitid as usual. There was a looseness of trousers, and a sloppiness of shoe, that savoured no longer of St. James's-street.",
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        "Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine."
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          "smartly",
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        "(obsolete, of a person) Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine."
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