The upperside of the hindwings is dark brown with a brilliant metallic blue sheen.

The two species are very similar but aesacus has a brilliant turquoise-blue sheen (shown in the Rippon plate left below)

The original Croad Langshans were black with a brilliant green sheen and that is still the main colour kept today.

The oil, which is made of a resin extracted from pine trees, gives the painted pottery a brilliant sheen.

The combat certainly looks to have been buffed to a brilliant sheen.

The scales on the forewings of both sexes are brightly metallic, usually golden and green, giving the moth a brilliant sheen.

Instruct your squires to buff each man's aspis to its most brilliant sheen.

Part of his exterior now gleamed with a brilliant sheen, in stark contrast to those areas that still had a pall of dust on them.

Was it because she was in love with him that their lovemaking had taken on such a brilliant sheen?

It was an old table, restored and polished to a brilliant sheen, reflecting fire from outside.