lustered
lustered is the simple past and past participle of luster.
Meaning of luster
Verb
luster (third-person singular simple present lusters, present participle lustering, simple past and past participle lustered)
- To have luster, to gleam, to shine.
- What bloom, what brightness lusters o’er her cheeks!1729, Richard Savage, The Wanderer, Sect. iii, l. 326
- To gain luster, to become lustrous.
- To make illustrious or attractive, to distinguish.
- Our Puritans have from hence learned to colour and lustre their ugly Treasons... with the cloake of Religion.1644, John Maxwell, Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas, page 17
- To coat with a lustrous material or glaze, to impart physical luster to an object.
- Peter and Mania found a pensione whose view was of chestnut woods and a horizon looped by peaks lustred with last winter’s snow, distant in time as well as space.1985, Nadine Gordimer, “Sins of the Third Age”, in Something Out There, Penguin, page 69
- To shed light on, to illustrate, to show.
- Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew.
- Synonyms:
- purify, to ritually cleanse or renew
Questions about lustered
- What is lustered the simple past and past participle of?
- Lustered is the simple past and past participle of luster.
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