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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



... 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
... 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


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