'nacreous' in My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro | Bookmarker

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(adjective) possessing the qualities of, consisting of, or abounding in nacre / (adjective) iridescent

The nacreous layers that formed around the events in one's history to smoothe, distinguish, and beautify them

—p.144 SOME OTHER, BETTER OTTO (135) by Deborah Eisenberg

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