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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Not lustrous; not shining.
  2. [The above is the reading in some modern editions; the old editions have illustrious.]

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Not lustrous; without lustre.

Etymologies

  1. un- +‎ lustrous (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “However, US distributor Columbia refused the expense of color prints, releasing it only in decidedly unlustrous black-and-white.”

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  • “Pottery with very pale sometimes greenish clay, and grey black totally unlustrous paint.”

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  • “He is one who will undertake this despised unlustrous matter of which our ordinary human life consists, and make a science of it, building up its generalizations from its particulars, and observing the actual reality, -- the thing as it is, freshly, for that purpose; and not omitting any detail, -- the poorest.”

    The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded

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