luster

He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster.

After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.

He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.

Each mortal has his pleasure: none deny

Scarsdale his bottle, Darty his ham-pie;

Ridotta sips and dances, till she see

The doubling lustres dance as fast as she;

Chinese themes are equally recognisable in the star-shaped and hexagonal tiles with either moulded relief or lustre-painted decoration, sometimes surrounded by an inscription border […]

The whole place was covered with fragments of pottery, mostly very rough, and difficult to identify as to date. Two small lustre shards belong to the ninth or tenth century and a green glaze resembles the output of the kilns found by Sir Aurel Stein on the coast of Makran.

Mrs. McLash was dressed for travelling. She wore a black lustre skirt that just exposed her broken button-boots […]