lustre
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).
NounEdit
lustre (countable and uncountable, plural lustres)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (shine, etc.)
- (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.
- A glass ornament such as a prism or cut glass dangling beneath a chandelier; usually in clusters or festoons
- 2013, Shena Mackay, Redhill Rococo, →ISBN:
- ...he went out through the unfamiliar hall, setting the chandelier clashing its dusty lustres with his hand, leaving a prismatic jangle behind him in the empty house.
- (dated) A chandelier, particularly one decorated with glass lustres
- 1889, Anonymous, The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement[2]:
- On the ground floor, the library (a room in carved oak) is lighted by a lustre composed of twelve regenerative burners enclosed in tinted glasses.
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VerbEdit
lustre (third-person singular simple present lustres, present participle lustring, simple past and past participle lustred)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of luster
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin lustrum. See luster (etymology 2)
NounEdit
lustre (plural lustres)
- (British spelling) Alternative form of luster (a lustrum)
TranslationsEdit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lustre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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CatalanEdit
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NounEdit
lustre m (plural lustres)
- lustrum (period of five years)
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Further readingEdit
- “lustre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
lustre m (plural lustres)
- lustrum; period of five years
- (figuratively) a very long time
- Ça fait des lustres que je ne t'ai pas vu ! ― I haven't seen you in ages!
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
lustre m (plural lustres)
- lustre, chandelier
- gloss, shine, lustre
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DescendantsEdit
- Russian: лю́стра f (ljústra)
Further readingEdit
- “lustre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
lustre f pl
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
lustre m (plural lustres)
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
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NounEdit
lustre m (plural lustres)
SpanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
lustre m (plural lustres)
VerbEdit
lustre
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of lustrar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of lustrar.
Further readingEdit
- “lustre” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.