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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Had ever peach such artistic hue, and teeth such pearly pearliness, and lips such positive sweetness, and brow such loveliness?
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 09, May 28, 1870 by Various
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
This gives a good imitation of phosphorescence, as well as a slight pearliness, whilst the tinsel, seen through the paint and the curious milkiness of the glass, gives good "fire."
From The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by John Mastin
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
