different between glowing vs lustrous

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??lo???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??l????/
• Rhymes: -????

Verb

glowing

1. present participle of glow

Noun

glowing (plural glowings)

1. The action of the verb glow.

Adjective

glowing (comparative more glowing, superlative most glowing)

1. That glows or glow.

   glowing embers

2. (figuratively) Full of praise.

   He received glowing references from his previous employers.

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• gowling

English

Etymology

lustre +? -ous

Adjective

lustrous (comparative more lustrous, superlative most lustrous)

1. Having a glow or lustre.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2, [1]

     Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstores toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?

   • 1892, Walt Whitman, "Gods" in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: The Modern Library, 1921, p. 232, [2]

     Or Time and Space,

     Or shape of Earth divine and wondrous,

     Or some fair shape I viewing, worship,

     Or lustrous orb of sun or star by night,

     Be ye my Gods.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 1,^[3]

     It was a hot noon in July; and his face, lustrous with perspiration, beamed with barbaric good humor.

   • 1936, Wallace Stevens, "Meditation Celestial & Terrestrial" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, p. 123,

     The wild warblers are warbling in the jungle

     Of life and spring and of the lustrous inundations,

     Flood on flood, of our returning sun.

   • 2000, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, Random House Children's Books, 2001, Chapter 1,^[4]

     The sunlight lay heavy and rich on his lustrous golden fur, and his monkey hands turned a pine cone this way and that, snapping off the scales with sharp fingers and scratching out the sweet nuts.

2. As if shining with a brilliant light; radiant.

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