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

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nacreous



lit by that same nacreous wrinkling the films use to suggest rain out a window

—p.479 by Thomas Pynchon
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3 years, 10 months ago


made the city Tucson's lume nacreous in the dome blankness of it.

—p.320 by David Foster Wallace
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8 years, 9 months ago


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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10 months ago


On the day of the outing the weather was cold and restless, a nacreous sky skimmed overhead

—p.531 SOLUS REX (523) by Vladimir Nabokov
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1 year, 9 months ago