Lexicographical Neighbors of Lustrine
Literary usage of Lustrine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wallace's American Trotting Register: Containing the Pedigrees of Standard by John Hankins Wallace, American trotting register association (1901)
"[See lustrine, Vol. VI.) Bred by George L. Warlow, Fresno, Cal.; passed to Jacob
Schäfer, Fowler, Cal. ..."
2. Dizionario italiano, inglese, francese: A concise dictionary of the Italian by Alfred Elwes (1855)
"... burnish: éclairer; illustrer, rendre illustre; lustrer; polir. lustrine ...
lustrine,/. Lustro, em. lustre; splendor; nobility; lustrum (space of five ..."
3. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"... itself a corruption of Fr. lustrine (from the gloss or lustre of the material).
Nowadays the name is practically confined to ribbon, perhaps because ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... were drawn over the delicate hands and arms, not to be discarded till the
thirty-first of May drew forth the silvery lustrine from its retirement of ..."
5. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry (1852)
"... and in sonic of tbe lustrine which are partially subject to tbe British) a
laxity of law, and an almost universal prevalence of intestine fends and ..."
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