lustrously

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As dawn breaks and dusk settles, the play of light and shadow turns the river green or gunmetal gray, lustrously pearlescent or mottled brown.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2024

Behind the two seated in the middle, a fifth man, lustrously mustachioed, spreads his arms wide to clap a paternal hand on the shoulders of the figures standing at their sides.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 9, 2016

Then it was renovated lustrously as an event space in 1998 and renamed Vanderbilt Hall, after the family that controlled the New York Central Railroad.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2016

In the six years since their debut, the Oxford band, led by the diminutive and lustrously bearded Yannis Philliakis have carved themselves out a niche as the thinking music fan's favourite band.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2013

At an elbow of the river the water has excavated a semicircular chamber which would hold fifty thousand people, and farther on the cliffs are of softly-tinted marble lustrously polished by the waves.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various