sheen

Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.

Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.

Where the fountains glisten sheenest […] (ch. 12).

Splendor; radiance; shininess.

There is a greenish sheen across the shoulders of his greasy black suit, for the morning light has of a sudden begun to dance through the bay window.

Mr. Leerhsen said in an interview that he wanted to write a book without the dutiful sheen of what he called “an official Bourdain product.”

A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

oil sheen

Perhaps the simplest of sauces is the pat of butter dropped on a heap of hot vegetables, or stirred into rice or noodles, or drawn across the surface of an omelet or steak to give a sheen.

To shine; to glisten.

This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.