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Sheeny

adjective

Reflecting light. Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, shining, shiny. "The horse's glossy coat" , "Lustrous auburn hair" , "Saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet" , "Shining white enamel"

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"Sheeny" Quotes from Famous Books

... shouldst part thy sheeny veil And strike thy fires, my heart would quail Beneath the eye of naked glory, The molten sun, ...

— Song-waves • Theodore H. Rand

... chewing th' rag an' start in an' get 'em. There's a Sheeny store on Ninth Avenue where you can get dandy shirts for fifty ...

— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol

... betrothed wife's side and sought hers: in the face of this little watching world about him he has, at last, quietly risen from the seat at Florence Ffolliott's side and followed that trail of sheeny satin into the conservatory. "Not one word for me?" he says in a low voice that has in it a ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various

... The sheeny steep shot with buds of lama— Outshining the comely malua-ula. Which one may seize and gird with a strong hand. 20 Leaf of ti for his malo, ...

— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson

... her, for she had the singular power of attracting all the night-flying insects to herself. But she cared for none of their attentions, and though she spoke politely to them all she gave encouragement to none. Yet some of the sheeny-winged gallants called her ...

— Japanese Fairy World - Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan • William Elliot Griffis

Words linked to "Sheeny" : disparagement, patois, lingo, jargon, vernacular, bright, Hebrew, shiny, ethnic slur, slang, argot, Jew, derogation, Israelite, depreciation, shining, sheen, lustrous, cant