"Weight without lustre is lead," he told his son, and urged him "to shine, not to weigh".
Filament yarns are usually thin, smooth, and lustrous; staple yarns are usually thicker, fibrous, and without lustre.
The 34-year-old has been studiously knocking out finely crafted pop records – from the Mercury nominated Here Be Monsters to last year's lovely Lustre – for 10 years without great fanfare.
Her voice has grown darker and plusher without losing its lustre.
To quote Lovecraft's poem "Nemesis", he has "seen the dark universe yawning / Where the black planets roll without aim / Where they roll in their horror unheeded / Without knowledge or lustre or name".
The Christmas special I can watch again and again without it ever losing its lustre is Blackadder's Christmas Carol, first shown in 1988.
Without looking, I sensed the lustre, the angles, and the facets of immense mosaic cliffs, dazzling precipices, and the mirrorlike glint of multitudinous lakes lying somewhere below, behind me.
Most are lead gray in colour with a metallic lustre, brittle (rarely malleable), crystalline, and difficult to tell apart without recourse to X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analyses.
This was not without intense criticism and reduced its much vaunted lustre.
What's interesting about the technique is that it gives engineers a way to control the colour, indeed the entire spectral response, of the metal without changing its other properties, such as its conductivity, hardness and lustre.
