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語源 1

From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).

名詞

lustre (countable and uncountable, plural lustres)

1. British standard spelling of luster (shine, etc.).

   Various kinds of minerals differ in their lustre; iron pyrites are described as having a metallic lustre, glassy materials a vitreous lustre; others, such as opal, look resinous, and the lustres of yet others are described as being either pearly, or silky, or dull, like earth.

   • 1838, John Henry Brady, A new pocket guide to London and its environs‎:

     In the centre is painted an eagle, from whose beak an elegant glass lustre chandelier is suspended. There are also ten smaller chandeliers in different parts of the room.

   • 1889, anonymous author, The Journal of Gas Lighting, Water Supply & Sanitary Improvement‎:

     On the ground floor, the library (a room in carved oak) is lighted by a lustre composed of twelve regenerative burners enclosed in tinted glasses.

   • 2013, Shena Mackay, Redhill Rococo, →ISBN:

     ...he went out through the unfamiliar hall, setting the chandelier clashing its dusty lustres with his hand, leaving a prismatic jangle behind him in the empty house.

   • 2025 July 23, Richard Foster, “Huddersfield's overdue makeover”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 36:

     As TransPennine Express 185130 departs with the 1654 to Manchester Piccadilly, while Northern 150273 waits with the 1712 to Sheffield, it is clear from this vantage point that the Grade 1 listed station has lost some of its lustre. But this is May 23 2023... before work to restore that lustre started.

反意語

• dullness
• lacklustre

派生語

関連する語

• lustrous

動詞

lustre (third-person singular simple present lustres, present participle lustring, simple past and past participle lustred)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster.

語源 2

From 中期英語 lustre, from Latin lustrum, from Old Latin *loustrom, of uncertain origin. More at lustrum.

名詞

lustre (plural lustres)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of luster: A 5-year period, especially (historical) in Roman contexts.

語源 3

From Latin lustra (“wilds, woods”), thought to derive from unattested *dustrum, from unattested Ancient Greek *δύστρον (*dústron, “place animals wallow”), from δύω (dúō, “to plunge, to wallow”).

名詞

lustre (plural lustres)

1. (British spelling, obsolete) Alternative form of luster: a den, a dwelling-place in a wilderness, especially for animals.

参照

• “lustre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Luster, Ulster, lurest, luster, luters, result, rulest, rustle, sutler, truels, ulster