sheen

adjective2

1. •
   (no longer used, rare) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.

   • Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen. — 1600
2. •
   (no longer used, rare) Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.

   • […] And all her crystal springs, whence clear and sheen Her brooks receive the wat'ry element, […] — 1822

noun3

1. •
   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. — 1946
2. •
   A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

   • 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. — 2004
3. •
   The letter ش in the Arabic script.

verb1

1. •
   (literary, rare) To shine; to glisten.

   • This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be. — 1812

noun1

1. •
   An area of Greater London, officially East Sheen.