nacreous
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9.7
- adjective
- /ˈneɪkrəs/
:
nacarado
- A smooth (M. Woolf says smooze) white nacreous surface, eh?
- nacreous clouds
- nacreous light
Examples
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As the light grew, nacreous tints of milky blue and rose flushed the argent pallor of the land, and when the yellow disk rolled up over the horizon's edge.
Blog text (22) -
Her nacreous dress shimmered under the lights, captivating everyone at the party.
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And nacreous clouds will start to form a lot more.
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I sat looking bleakly at the nacreous wall behind which eyes noted my every act.
Fiction book (1992) -
How many times during those years had he peered into a night sky hidden behind a canopy of nacreous city light?
Fiction book (1996) -
There was a light coming from somewhere above, not from Mary and her sucking Babe, but from higher up, gentle, watery, nacreous.
Fiction book (1997) -
In Soldiers' Park, old men on benches read the Star-Ledger and the racing forms and tossed donut crumbs and peanuts to the nacreous pigeons.
Fiction book (1997) -
The room seemed to shudder into a shocked silence as the barbaric sound of the Ogre-horn, deep-toned and rasping, reverberated from the nacreous walls.
Fiction book (1993) -
She admired a treasure cavern full of translucent beakers in sand-blasted glass: rosy, nacreous, powder blue, duck egg.
Fiction book (1998) -
His face, which was spread neatly along either side of his hawk nose, had firm, finely cut lips of pale pink behind which teeth of a nacreous white could be seen when he smiled or lifted his lip in the small sneer with which he expressed emotion.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
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3.2
Having a white, shiny look with a soft glow
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7.6
Bright colors that seem to change when seen from different angles
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8.2
Soft, shiny colors on a surface that look like a small rainbow
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7.9
A shiny surface like a pearl that shows rainbow colors when you move it
Having a shiny surface that shows soft changing colors like a pearl
A smooth, shiny surface that glows softly in light
Having a milky rainbow shine that changes with light
Antonyms
Compounds
How Pearly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nacreous comes from nacre, the French word for 'mother-of-pearl', the shiny inner layer of some shells and the same glow you see in a pearl. So nacreous means having a pearly, rainbow-like shine.