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Meanings of opalescence in English

Portuguese
iridescência
Catalan
iridescència

The visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface.

iridescência
Usage of opalescence in English
1
It gathered Throckmartin to it, clothed him in a robe of living opalescence.
The Moon Pool
2
The sky was changing from a cold grey to the opalescence of dawn.
There was a King in Egypt
3
As they faded, a milky opalescence formed in the centre of the room.
Childhood's End
4
The relux glowed, and the opalescence shifted with bewildering, confusing colors.
Invaders from the Infinite
5
A diffused glow of opalescence ran over every ship-savethe giant.
Invaders from the Infinite
6
But as the light sped and struck the opalescence it was blotted out!
The Moon Pool
7
The city's shifting opalescence produced strange reflections across Gore's golden face.
The evolutionary void
8
It slipped aside and once more the opalescence gushed out, flooding all about us.
The Moon Pool
9
Her nails had somehow been lacquered in the same opalescence.
Summer knight
10
There were no deep, glowing coals, no amethystine opalescence, fading into gold and violet.
Judith of the Plains
11
When the great slab rolled away, no torrents of opalescence came rushing out upon us.
The Moon Pool
12
Below was the unmistakable opalescence, somehow produced by powerful illumination, as intense as sunlight itself.
The Blind Spot
13
Across the street, English Bay lay like a mirror in the fresh opalescence of morning.
The lost recipe for happiness
14
Her nails were colored with shining opalescence gorgeous to the eye and distracting as hell.
Dead beat
15
You'll understand, too, but this is for Dua. He kept watching Dua, who was gaining opalescence.
The Gods Themselves
16
Only the opalescence in the air was left.
Iron Council
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Translations for opalescence
Portuguese
iridescência
Opalescence through the time