a. [f. LUSTRE sb.1 + -LESS.] Without luster: said freq. of the eyes.
1810. E. Dudley, Amoroso, II. 109 (Fitzedw. Hall).
a. 1814. Spaniards, V. i. in New Brit. Theatre, III. 246. Her eyes … Now lustreless are cast upon the ground, Or stare around her with a vacant gaze.
1833. [Joseph O’Leary], The Tribute, 114. My face corresponds pretty well,… the eyes pale, sunken, and lusterless.
1851. Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. App. 393. No perfect or refined form can be expressed except in opaque and lustreless matter.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xvi. 254. The skin … becomes dry, lustreless, and scurfy.
