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What is another word for sheens?

Pronunciation: [ʃˈiːnz] (IPA)

Sheens refer to the shiny or glossy appearance of an object. There are a number of different synonyms for sheens, each of which can be used to describe a slightly different type of shine. Some common synonyms include luster, glimmer, gleam, shimmer, and shine. Luster is often used to describe the visual or tactile quality of a material, while glimmer is more often used to describe the way light reflects off of an object. Gleam and shimmer both refer to the way that light seems to dance off of a surface, while shine is a more general term that can be used to describe any type of reflective quality.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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  • The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak pale sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay as they had fallen. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads back-drawn in the death-throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant, god of a warrior-race...
    Robert E. Howard

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