Lustring

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  • n. A glossy silk fabric; lutestring.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of glossy silk fabric. See lutestring.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See lustering.
  • n. A species or glossy silk fabric: a term more used in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries than now, and denoting generally plain solid silk, neither figured nor corded, nor having a satin surface.
    • Word Usage
    "A suitable material was found in "lustring," a glossy silk cloth varnished with a solution of caoutchouc, and this being formed into a balloon only thirteen feet in diameter and fitted without other aperture than a stopcock, was after several attempts filled with hydrogen gas prepared in the usual way by the action of dilute sulphuric acid on scrap iron."
    Variant
    lutestring   
    Verb Stem
    lustre   
     
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