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[ adjective ] reflecting light
Examples "glistening bodies of swimmers" "the horse's glossy coat" "lustrous auburn hair" "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet" "shining white enamel" Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)At_once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took_to_be Spanish , but - the driver 's white teeth flashing at me , the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair , beyond his gesticulating bottle - it could have been the purest Oxford_English I was half hearing ; I would n't have known the difference . (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)Now_and_then , the glistening side of a half swamped object showed as it swept past . Related terms |
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