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Meanings of opaline in английском
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
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.
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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 opaline in английском
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.
6
The sky was cloudless and the contours of the lovely island were bathed in opaline light.
7
Scientists think the layers contain opaline silica and iron sulfates formed through alteration by acidic water.
8
The liquid was of an opaline hue, and bore a label with an inscription in Italian.
9
The mysterious light had taken an opaline color.
10
The opaline mists are gone, and he sees with dreadful clearness the path which lies immediately ahead.
11
The Boy was struck by a note that was almost horror in the opaline voice so near him.
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Likewise the organ pipes of ice suspended from the cliffs and the opaline reflections on the pale winter sea.
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The effect of opaline mist was often repeated at Bessborough Gardens on account of the nearness to the river.
14
The moon had emerged from a rippled sea of grey cloud, over which she cast her dull opaline halo.
15
The granite sand, too, often dotted with smooth-washed jaspers and garnets and opaline quartz, is especially bright and spotless.
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He could not go on because he collapsed, dragging with him an opaline lamp that shattered against the wall.
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