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Meanings of opalescent in English

Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors.

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Usage of opalescent in English
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It was twilight; opalescent waves of heat rolled above the blistered sands.
The Man on the Box
2
The saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
3
In the deepening evening our widening V-shaped wake glowed with opalescent witch-fires.
The River and I
4
It was scintillating, coruscating, opalescent; but it was blue most of all.
The Blind Spot
5
A shimmering being, pearly and opalescent, brushed past me imperiously: Princess Glisselda.
Seraphina
6
Somewhere a temple, opalescent in the sunset, suggested rather than defined itself.
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
7
The entire cauldron depression was now a blinding mass of opalescent light.
Wandl the Invader
8
The light around him was pearly, almost opalescent, fading eastwards into pink.
The Black Box
9
A clearance over the islands has shaded to a chilly, opalescent greeny-blue.
The Irish Times
10
Fort after fort glowed opalescent, then flashed into protective ionization of screening.
Invaders from the Infinite
11
It was scaled in serried rows and those plate-sized scales pulsed opalescent.
Blood and Bone
12
Her toenails were painted an opalescent shade that matched the pink silk.
Ape House
13
What appeared to be armour upon them gleamed sapphire and rainbow opalescent.
Return of the Crimson Guard
14
While, across this last, lay horizontal lines of fringed, semi-transparent, opalescent cloud.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
15
It was an opalescent white; it almost glowed, but did not shine.
Evidence of the afterlife: the science of near-death experiences
16
Six-foot, opalescent wings beat furiously upon the air, glimmered with rainbow color.
Phantoms
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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