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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The sky, naked of clouds, had become a brightening sphere of pearliness; a deep rose gathered over the hills and spread fanlike, licking up the ashen pallor with stabs of flame.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
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
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
No fond mother crooning to her first-born ever looked on budding teeth more delightful in modelling and pearliness.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
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
