variants
or lustres
as in gleams
to shoot forth bursts of light
her pearl necklace lustered softly in the candlelight of the restaurant
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gleams
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The Airstream gleams absurdly against the ocherous land below.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Patches of unintelligibility are nothing new in Pynchon, but usually a coherent world view gleams upward from the murk.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Lusters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lusters. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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