Significats de nacreous en anglès

And power transformers atop lightpoles bloomed into nacreous purple light, spitting catherine-wheel sparks.

The sky outside the window was pale, ethereal, marbled with nascent, nacreous cloud.

There were no stars, no glowing orb, no nacreous, shimmering clouds.

The hedges to either side brandish spikes edged with a nacreous rind of blight.

Going by the nacreous glow from below, whatever is waiting for us is downstairs in the basement.

Pale silver-pink, a nacreous translucence.

They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain.

Then, as Bowman's eyes grew accustomed to the nacreous glow that filled the heavens, he became aware of another detail.

Mo leans forward, careful to stay within her ward (which glows pale blue, the nacreous glimmer washing over her feet).

Sometimes the humblest slave is visited in his slumbers by some radiant and lovely vision, with ideal forms, nacreous flesh, ambrosial hair.

Arabesques proceeded from lozenges of lapis lazuli, wove their patterns on the cupolas where, on nacreous marquetry, crept rainbow gleams and prismatic flames.

Its vast carapace was the nacreous white that she'd seen in the walls of the ruins, but there was nothing architectural about this.

When they felt the vibrations of the approaching diver, they would snap shut-andthere would be a momentary, nacreous flicker in the gloom.

The suffering angel, whose face was usually so sweet, was transformed in every feature, while her eyes swam, showing balls of a nacreous blue.

Here, we show that nacreous sections can exhibit complete brittle fracture along the tablet interfaces at the proportional limit under pure shear stresses of torsion.

Five-fingered and slender, only smooth fingertips without nails and skin the alien, nacreous black of pure pitch distinguished them from the hands of human children.