STARDUST noun (stahr-duhst)

noun

1. a naively romantic quality: There was stardust in her eyes.
2. (not in technical use) a mass of distant stars appearing as tiny particles of dust.


Quotes

"I seem to remember you had a different opinion of her once." ... "I guess I must've had some stardust in my eyes. But that was a thousand years ago. ..."
--*Alan Hunter,*Gently with Love, 1975


It sounds corny, but I got stardust in my eyes the first time I saw the boulevard.
--*Harold Robbins,*Never Enough, 2001



Origin

Stardust was first recorded in 1835–45.