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; without lustre.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ lustrous

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Examples

  • However, US distributor Columbia refused the expense of color prints, releasing it only in decidedly unlustrous black-and-white.

    The Other Addams Family 2007

  • However, US distributor Columbia refused the expense of color prints, releasing it only in decidedly unlustrous black-and-white.

    Archive 2007-06-24 2007

  • Pottery with very pale sometimes greenish clay, and grey black totally unlustrous paint.

    How to Observe in Archaeology Various

  • 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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