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Meanings of pearlescent 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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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.
1
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
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 pearlescent in English
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.
6
The car, wearing a pearlescent shade of orange called Tangerine, ambled at a walking pace.
7
Azure pointed at me and laughed, pearlescent wings jittering as she swayed on her stool.
8
Two sets of fairy footprints led from the turgid pearlescent puddle into the en suite wetroom.
9
The source seemed to be the size of a golf ball with a smooth pearlescent surface.
10
First, before cutting the medallions, trim the pearlescent membrane, called the silver skin, from the tenderloin.
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Her skin gleamed, pearlescent in the evening sun.
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Encased in pearlescent green battle armor, the man looked like a figure from mythology-otherworldlyand terrifying.
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Her eyes flashed pure and empty white, and her skin began to grow luminous and pearlescent.
14
The palace was a fairy tale synthesis of branches, vines, and ferns intertwined with pearlescent white stone.
15
Uncooked, it's a pearlescent white ribbon.
16
Ten feet tall, supernaturally slender, and glamorous, naked save for blue-daubed sigils glowing fiercely on her pearlescent skin.
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