Rubbing with cotton burnishes the gold to a high lustre.
Fine baskets, with a variety of motifs in the same colours, come from the same area, as well as fine black pottery burnished to a high lustre.
Pure titanium is ductile, about half as dense as iron and less than twice as dense as aluminum; it can be polished to a high lustre.
Silk from the cultivated Bombyx mori larva is an appreciated material in historic costumes due to its valuable properties such as high lustre, smoothness, strength and lightness.
He founded a school, but his most gifted pupils such as Georg Schwanhardt, originator of the famous Nürnberg school of engravers moved out of Bohemia; and glass engraving did not flourish there until about 1700, when a heavy, high-lustre, potash-lime glass (Bohemian crystal) was invented.
The most stable form of elemental antimony is a brittle, silvery solid of high metallic lustre.
It is set centrally into an elaborate black frame which has a high piano-type lustre to it.
These compounds have high melting points, are extremely hard, and are usually opaque materials that have metallic lustre and high conductivities.
Joffe envisioned Puck as "the Armani of the food business," modelling his approach on the fashion industry, where the high-priced label adds lustre to the brand, while the mass-oriented line reaps the profits.
Living outside Paris, with Nina, until his death, in 1944, he added no lustre to his high repute.
