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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



... some rich gold lace; Ellen had induced her to bind her hair with a gold ribbon, and from her ears great gold ear-rings hung nearly to her shoulders, giving the usual barbaric touch to her stateliness. Ellen, in contrast, wore iris-tinted gowns that displayed nacreous arms and shoulders, and her hair passed in great dark shining licks ...
— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith
... 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
... morning, dawn, though near at hand, had not yet come. His pale-robed heralds were busy, however, diffusing that sort of nacreous haze which in coastal Australia lights the way for each day's coming. Looking out over the pillow of my cot I saw Ted among the trees, girthing the pack-saddle on Jerry. In a very few moments I was beside him, and in five minutes he had started on ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
... 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
... Laurencin produces for us, one that makes the eye avid of more experience and the mind of more of its subtlety. It is an essentially beautiful and satisfying contribution to modern painting, this nacreous ...
— Adventures in the Arts - Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets • Marsden Hartley


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