pearly
adjective
like a pearl, especially in being white or lustrous; nacreous.
pearliness
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a word derived from
pearly.
Example Sentences
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Liszt gave it with a velvety softness, clearness, brilliancy and pearliness of touch that was inimitable.
From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay
His curly hair was golden; his cheeks were pink; his lips, coral red, parted incessantly to reveal the glistening pearliness of his teeth.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis
Take up no pearly drop from the lake, mother of pearliness, lest falling it sound too loudly.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
In the purple gloom that followed the white cloisters of the courtyard glowed with a faintly luminous pearliness.
From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
Patiently, piece by piece, he must go over all this, watching for that faint blue haze, that deepening of the atmosphere, that almost imagined pearliness against the distant hills which meant new fire.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
