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Significados de opalescent em inglês

Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors.

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Examples for "iridescent"
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His dæmon, a large and iridescent green-backedbeetle, clicked her wing cases.
The amber spyglass
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Antony swatted one, and its iridescent blob smeared the area of Athens.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Overhead, a block of iridescent blue light flashed from his hotel window.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
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Each moment was an iridescent bubble fresh-blown from the lips of fancy
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
5
He was holding what looked like a large salmon, beautiful and iridescent.
The Long Earth
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The little picture has all the opaline atmosphere of a Claude Lorraine.
Ponkapog Papers
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The water is not then deep blue, but pale, with opaline reflections.
Oldport Days
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Now he could discern hills rising in a gilded opaline light.
Where the Blue Begins
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Literally and carefully I speak of the light of pearls, with the opaline changes.
Memories of Hawthorne
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On her imperial heart the flames of hell showed only the opaline colours of heaven.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
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A thick pearlescent ground fog curled slowly around my ankles, almost deliberately.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
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I start to stare inward to the pearlescent mystery I'm carrying.
Lit: a memoir
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Everything was symmetrical and strong, cleaned to a pearlescent shine.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
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The container looked and sounded like a regular household refrigerator, squat, pearlescent, and humming.
Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
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The fairy's body slumps to the concrete, its dulled pearlescent wings crushing beneath its weight.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
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And power transformers atop lightpoles bloomed into nacreous purple light, spitting catherine-wheel sparks.
Carrie
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The sky outside the window was pale, ethereal, marbled with nascent, nacreous cloud.
Slow decay
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There were no stars, no glowing orb, no nacreous, shimmering clouds.
The Mammoth Hunters
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The hedges to either side brandish spikes edged with a nacreous rind of blight.
The Fuller Memorandum
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Going by the nacreous glow from below, whatever is waiting for us is downstairs in the basement.
The Apocalypse Codex
Uso de opalescent em inglês
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It was twilight; opalescent waves of heat rolled above the blistered sands.
The Man on the Box
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The saline tracts between the prisms produce a milky or opalescent appearance.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
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In the deepening evening our widening V-shaped wake glowed with opalescent witch-fires.
The River and I
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It was scintillating, coruscating, opalescent; but it was blue most of all.
The Blind Spot
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A shimmering being, pearly and opalescent, brushed past me imperiously: Princess Glisselda.
Seraphina
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Somewhere a temple, opalescent in the sunset, suggested rather than defined itself.
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
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The entire cauldron depression was now a blinding mass of opalescent light.
Wandl the Invader
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The light around him was pearly, almost opalescent, fading eastwards into pink.
The Black Box
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A clearance over the islands has shaded to a chilly, opalescent greeny-blue.
The Irish Times
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Fort after fort glowed opalescent, then flashed into protective ionization of screening.
Invaders from the Infinite
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It was scaled in serried rows and those plate-sized scales pulsed opalescent.
Blood and Bone
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Her toenails were painted an opalescent shade that matched the pink silk.
Ape House
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What appeared to be armour upon them gleamed sapphire and rainbow opalescent.
Return of the Crimson Guard
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While, across this last, lay horizontal lines of fringed, semi-transparent, opalescent cloud.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
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It was an opalescent white; it almost glowed, but did not shine.
Evidence of the afterlife: the science of near-death experiences
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Six-foot, opalescent wings beat furiously upon the air, glimmered with rainbow color.
Phantoms
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