All 5 Uses of
luminous
in
The Golden Apples
- He slept sitting up with his back against a tree, his head pillowed in the luminous Panama, his snorting mouth drawn round in a perfect heart open to the green turning world around him.†
Story 3
- Luminous of course but hidden from them, Moon Lake streamed out in the night.†
Story 4
- She slept in the bedroom rocker, in the luminous veil of her dress, the cocoon of her head hanging upon it, and the fan let fall from her fingers.†
Story 7
- He put up a little horned finger and touched a string on the old banjo of her father's, which hung on its nail in the hall, the head faintly luminous by morning light.†
Story 7
- Virgie looked at the naked, luminous, complicated flower, large and pale as a face on the dark porch.
Story 7 *luminous = glowing (or perhaps beautiful)
Definition:
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(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence)