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luminous
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The Wanderers
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
- Virgie looked at the naked, luminous, complicated flower, large and pale as a face on the dark porch.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(luminous) glowing or shining
(also used metaphorically to describe beauty or intelligence) -
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, luminous can mean beautiful, inspiring, or beautifully clear and understandable.