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Meanings of opalescent in English
Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors.
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Examples for "iridescent"
Examples for "iridescent"
1
His dæmon, a large and iridescent green-backedbeetle, clicked her wing cases.
2
Antony swatted one, and its iridescent blob smeared the area of Athens.
3
Overhead, a block of iridescent blue light flashed from his hotel window.
4
Each moment was an iridescent bubble fresh-blown from the lips of fancy
5
He was holding what looked like a large salmon, beautiful and iridescent.
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The little picture has all the opaline atmosphere of a Claude Lorraine.
2
The water is not then deep blue, but pale, with opaline reflections.
3
Now he could discern hills rising in a gilded opaline light.
4
Literally and carefully I speak of the light of pearls, with the opaline changes.
5
On her imperial heart the flames of hell showed only the opaline colours of heaven.
1
A thick pearlescent ground fog curled slowly around my ankles, almost deliberately.
2
I start to stare inward to the pearlescent mystery I'm carrying.
3
Everything was symmetrical and strong, cleaned to a pearlescent shine.
4
The container looked and sounded like a regular household refrigerator, squat, pearlescent, and humming.
5
The fairy's body slumps to the concrete, its dulled pearlescent wings crushing beneath its weight.
1
And power transformers atop lightpoles bloomed into nacreous purple light, spitting catherine-wheel sparks.
2
The sky outside the window was pale, ethereal, marbled with nascent, nacreous cloud.
3
There were no stars, no glowing orb, no nacreous, shimmering clouds.
4
The hedges to either side brandish spikes edged with a nacreous rind of blight.
5
Going by the nacreous glow from below, whatever is waiting for us is downstairs in the basement.
Usage of opalescent in English
1
It was twilight; opalescent waves of heat rolled above the blistered sands.
2
The saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance.
3
In the deepening evening our widening V-shaped wake glowed with opalescent witch-fires.
4
It was scintillating, coruscating, opalescent; but it was blue most of all.
5
A shimmering being, pearly and opalescent, brushed past me imperiously: Princess Glisselda.
6
Somewhere a temple, opalescent in the sunset, suggested rather than defined itself.
7
The entire cauldron depression was now a blinding mass of opalescent light.
8
The light around him was pearly, almost opalescent, fading eastwards into pink.
9
A clearance over the islands has shaded to a chilly, opalescent greeny-blue.
10
Fort after fort glowed opalescent, then flashed into protective ionization of screening.
11
It was scaled in serried rows and those plate-sized scales pulsed opalescent.
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Her toenails were painted an opalescent shade that matched the pink silk.
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What appeared to be armour upon them gleamed sapphire and rainbow opalescent.
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While, across this last, lay horizontal lines of fringed, semi-transparent, opalescent cloud.
15
It was an opalescent white; it almost glowed, but did not shine.
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Six-foot, opalescent wings beat furiously upon the air, glimmered with rainbow color.
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United Kingdom
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