A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.
After a year and a half or two years, crepe-de-chine, lusterless silk, etc.
The entire skull and face were covered with small, closely overlapping scales of lusterless gray.
Fencing in the enclosure at twenty-yard intervals and reaching upward to the ceiling were slender posts of some lusterless black metal.
Many bivalves secrete similar bodies, but as they have the nature of the shell, those produced by mollusks having lusterless interiors are of no value.
In old shells the color-markings are not so brilliant, the shells being a dull, lusterless white.
A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.
Gunmetal shoes are preferable for everyday wear, for such shoes are lusterlessand can be cleaned with oils instead of polish, which is destructive to the best leather, even when sparingly used.
And so the old crystal chandeliers still drooped their festooned prisms and the massive doors were still of a soft, lusterless black, with fine gilt outlines of panelling.
Not what is technically known as "mourning," but softly draped folds of dull, lusterless silk, that threw into higher relief her clear olive complexion and shining black eyes.
The dress is of Henrietta cloth, or other lusterless material, and may be trimmed with crape.
Dresses may be of nun’s veiling, Henrietta cloth, and other unshining wool fabrics, or of dull, lusterless silks.
The lusterless eyes shot up quickly from their hollows.
Her eyes were deep wells, shaded but luminous, under the lusterless dark of her hair, and her smile flashed a girlish benignity upon him.
And all was white and lusterless save the warning dusk of her eyes and the flash from her parting lips.
There was the casket, gray and lusterless on its low, stone base.
Lusterless gray in color--metal, unmistakably--and in them.
Their emaciated forms and lusterless eyes, told a painful story of the starvation and suffering they had endured for the preservation of their country, and for their loyalty to the flag.
Some to whom he administered the last rites of the Catholic church, showed by the glassy expression of their lusterless eyes, that the grim visitor already held them within his grasp.
Rose Stillwater wore a navy blue, lusterless silk traveling dress, with hat, veil and gloves to match, all very plain, but extremely becoming to her fresh complexion and ruddy hair.
Cora wore her widow's dress of lusterless black silk with mantle, bonnet, veil and gloves to match.
With his lusterlesseye and spare, remote manner, he looked like a man who had let himself dry up from within.
One was never looking forward to Winkelberg, and thus the sight of his wan, determined smile, his lusterless eyes and his tenacious crawl was invariably an uncomfortable surprise.
Yesterday she had on a deep-blue brocaded velvet, with some sort of heavy, lusterless fringe, and there was a decided though still discreet gleam of jewels.
With a touch so soft that it could not awaken him, she stroked the lusterless gold of his hair, and from time to time felt for the inaudible beating of his heart.
She wore something ankle-length and long-sleeved inlusterless gray with an odd, smoky quality to it.
The bony-faced young man looking out at her wore the lusterless black uniform of a U-League Junior Scientist.
Gems of brilliant quality are known suddenly to have lost their hues never to regain them, while others previously dull and lusterless have become radiant as the rainbow.
Some Opals which are dull and lusterless when dry exhibit considerable play of color when immersed in water, and this fact seems to favor the first theory of the cause of the iridescence, but the subject is not understood.
