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"sheen" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often luster (6 letters).
Definitions
the visual property of something that shines with reflected light
Word origin
From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.
Used in a sentence
“Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen.”
“The doleful Dumps I sing, and tearful Woes, Of Marian teeming with unlawful Throes: The sheenest Lass in Berkshire was she known, Of all that Butter fell to Reading Town: […]”
“[…] Would'st hear, what dims those eyes so sheen?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Soft, lustrous shine”5 letters
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