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Nacreous

adjective
1.
Consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl.
2.
Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors.  Synonyms: iridescent, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent.  "Nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl" , "A milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"



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"Nacreous" Quotes from Famous Books



... his breast-pocket and brought out a small leather sack. Startled, she looked at it as he drew open the cord. He took from the sack a wondrous thing, luminous with nacreous hues. ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England
... fluttering pinions lit Upon the darkened silver of her eyes. Her bright, voluptuous glances upward rise Into the vague and nacreous infinite. ...
— Enamels and Cameos and other Poems • Theophile Gautier
... art-critic said of the painter W. M. Chase applies equally well to many contemporary Imagists who use the forms of lyric verse: "He saw the world as a display of beautiful surfaces which challenged his skill. It was enough to set him painting to note the nacreous skin of a fish, or the satiny bloom of fruit, or the wind-smoothed dunes about Shinnecock, or the fine specific olive of a woman's face.... He took objects quite at their face value, and rarely invested them with the tenderness, mystery and understanding that comes from meditation ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry


Words linked to "Nacreous" :   bright, nacre


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