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chatoyant
[ shuh-toi-uhnt ]
adjective
- changing in luster or color:
chatoyant silk.
- Jewelry. reflecting a single streak of light when cut in a cabochon.
noun
- Jewelry. a cabochon-cut gemstone having this reflected streak, as a chrysoberyl cat's eye.
chatoyant
/ ʃəˈtɔɪənt /
adjective
- having changeable lustre; twinkling
- (of a gem, esp a cabochon) displaying a band of light reflected off inclusions of other minerals
noun
- a gemstone with a changeable lustre, such as a cat's eye
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Derived Forms
- chaˈtoyancy, noun
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Other Words From
- cha·toyance cha·toyan·cy noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chatoyant1
First recorded in 1790–1800; from French, present participle of chatoyer “to change luster like a cat's eye,” derivative of chat “cat”; cat ( def )
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Word History and Origins
Origin of chatoyant1
C18: from French, from chatoyer to gleam like a cat's eyes, from chat cat 1
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Example Sentences
The chatoyant eyes of the leopard stared back, a flicker of restlessness in their brilliant yellow deeps.
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Cymophane, or chatoyant chrysoberyl, may also be asteriated.
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She invariably wore gloves out of doors and a veil to conceal the chatoyant eyes.
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There was a river there too; not a little bolt of chatoyant silk like the Avon, which they would have called a "crick" back there.
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