sheen

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  1. noun Glistening brightness; luster: the sheen of old satin in candlelight.
  2. noun Splendid attire.
  3. noun A glossy surface given to textiles.

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lustre ·  radiance ·  tint ·  haze ·  gleam ·  shimmer ·  glitter ·  luster ·  blur ·  shine ·  whiteness ·  glow
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. From Middle English shene, beautiful, from Old English scīene.

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  1. Early modern English also shine (simulating shine, v.); from Middle English sheene, shene, schene, scheene, scene, sceone, scone, from Anglo-Saxon scēne, scy¯ne, sceóne, scióne = Old Saxon skōni, scōni = OFries. skēne, schēn, schōn = Dutch schoon = Middle Low German schōne, Low German schōne, schōn = Old High German scōni, Middle High German schœne, German schön, fair, beautiful, = Swedish skön = Danish skjön, beautiful (cf. Icelandic skjōni, a piebald horse), = Gothic (Moesogothic) skatuns, well-formed, beautiful (cf. ibna-skauns, of like appearance, *skauns, n., appearance, form, in comp. gutha-skaunei, the form of God); prob., with orig. past participle formative -n, from the root of Anglo-Saxon sceáwian, etc., look at, show: see show.
  2. from sheen, a.; in part a variant of shine.
  3. from sheen, v. or a.
 

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