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The only time glamour lays itself over the proceedings, the shine is as fake as the sun in a solarium, which is where the opening bloodbath takes place.

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  1. intransitive verb To emit light.
  2. intransitive verb To reflect light; glint or glisten.
  3. intransitive verb To distinguish oneself in an activity or a field; excel.

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sheen ·  gleam ·  radiance ·  glitter ·  glow ·  lustre ·  blaze ·  shimmer ·  halo ·  ray ·  sunshine ·  haze

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shine:   shone ·  shining ·  shines
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  1. Middle English shinen, from Old English scīnan.

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  1. from Middle English shinen, schinen, schynen (preterit shon, shoon, schoon, schon, schone, schane, past participle shinen), from Anglo-Saxon scīnan (preterit scān, plural scinon, past participle scinen) = Old Saxon skīnan = OFries. skīna, schīna = Dutch schijnen = Middle Low German schīnen, Low German schinen = Old High German scīnan, Middle High German schīncn, German scheinen = Icelandic skīna = Swedish skina = Danish skinne = Gothic (Moesogothic) skeinan, shine; with present-formative -na, from Teutonicskī, shine, whence also ult. English shim, shime, shimmer, etc., also English (obsolete) shire, and sheer, bright, etc.; prob. akin to Greek σκιά, a shadow (whence ult. English squirrel), σκίρον, sunshade, parasol.
  2. = Old Saxon scīn, skīn = Dutch shijn = Old High German scīn, schin, Middle High German schīn, German schein = Icelandic skin = Swedish sken = Danish skin; from the verb.
  3. A variant of sheen, simulating shine.
 

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