Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not lustrous; not shining.
- [The above is the reading in some modern editions; the old editions have illustrious.]
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- adjective Not
lustrous ; withoutlustre .
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, US distributor Columbia refused the expense of color prints, releasing it only in decidedly unlustrous black-and-white.
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However, US distributor Columbia refused the expense of color prints, releasing it only in decidedly unlustrous black-and-white.
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Pottery with very pale sometimes greenish clay, and grey black totally unlustrous paint.
How to Observe in Archaeology Various
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He is one who will undertake this despised unlustrous matter of which our ordinary human life consists, and make a science of it, building up its generalizations from its particulars, and observing the actual reality, -- the thing as it is, freshly, for that purpose; and not omitting any detail, -- the poorest.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835
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