lustring

• “A suitable material was found in "lustring," a glossy silk cloth varnished with a solution of caoutchouc, and this being formed into a balloon only thirteen feet in diameter and fitted without other aperture than a stopcock, was after several attempts filled with hydrogen gas prepared in the usual way by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on scrap iron.”

  The Dominion of the Air; the story of aerial navigation

• “Then we went to a mercer's at the end of Lombard Street, and there she bought a suit of Lutestring -- [More properly called "lustring"; a fine glossy silk.] -- for herself, and so home.”

  Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete

• “Then we went to a mercer's at the end of Lombard Street, and there she bought a suit of Lutestring ” [More properly called "lustring"; a fine glossy silk.] ” for herself, and so home.”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jan/Feb/Mar 1660/61

• “But here too she was not the innocent girl that 15 suggests: she was already engaged to debut as Cordelia at Drury Lane, and understood the codes of texture and color, lustring proving to be a favorite dress fabric.”

  Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

• “This attention to dress — the fine glossy silk of lustring fabric creating a delicate verdure that, in combination with dainty lilacs and a petticoat of lustrous tiffany all creating a "natural" lady, herself a pink bloom heightened through coloring — is signal because the ability of women's costuming to similarly aid in projecting identity and manage their own social plots was one Robinson, like”

  Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

• “Prevented by illness she married instead, and when Thomas insisted on a secretive wedding ceremony at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, she dressed as a Quaker (of dull brown, but of lustring nonetheless).”

  Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text

• “So spring-like at past fifty, with herpalepink lustring, and back head Yet so peevish at girls!”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “I got safe to my lodgings with this cargo, which was a piece of fine black lustring silk, and a piece of velvet; the latter was but part of a piece of about eleven yards; the former was a whole piece of near fifty yards.”

  Moll Flanders

• “But you must also get ready four sieves of fine lustring;”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “The willow, almond and the whole lot of trees, on the upper side, were, it is true, without blossom and leaves; but pongee and damask silks, paper and lustring had been employed, together with rice-paper, to make flowers of, which had been affixed on the branches.”

  Hung Lou Meng

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