adjective
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relating to or consisting of mother-of-pearl
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having the lustre of mother-of-pearl
nacreous minerals
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Origin of nacreous
Example Sentences
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Looking like a "portal to the next dimension" or possibly a spaceship, the shimmering colours of nacreous cloud were spotted.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2023
It had the nacreous sheen of an oyster shell.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
The urge to reach, irritably, for the device during meals, conversations, parties and upon awakening, can partly be attributed to lust for the object and the soft, nacreous glow of the screen.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2019
Where the previous photo paintings relied mostly on a gray-scale palette, Ema glows with nacreous pink skin and golden hair—her body “seems to shine from within,” as one critic put it.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
The undersides held a stickier yellow glow, and here and there a gleaming edge was picked out in nacreous brown, and the occasional filigree lacework that blossomed around a ruptured skin.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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