Both Uses of
luminous
in
Catch-22
- He sat all tucked up into himself, his slender shoulders huddled halfway around his head, his suntanned hands with their luminous silver fingernails massaging the backs of his bare, folded arms gently as though he were cold.†
Chpt 4 *
- He continued past a tent with a luminous pearl-gray cat sunning itself outside and past another trailer on cinder blocks and then burst into the clearing of Yossarian's squadron.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)