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nacreous

[ ney-kree-uhs ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to nacre.
  2. resembling nacre; lustrous; pearly:

    a nacreous luster;

    a nacreous sky.



nacreous

/ ˈ²Ô±ðɪ°ì°ùɪə²õ /

adjective

  1. relating to or consisting of mother-of-pearl
  2. having the lustre of mother-of-pearl

    nacreous minerals

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of nacreous1

First recorded in 1830–40; nacre + -ous
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Example Sentences

Looking like a "portal to the next dimension" or possibly a spaceship, the shimmering colours of nacreous cloud were spotted.

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It had the nacreous sheen of an oyster shell.

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The urge to reach, irritably, for the device during meals, conversations, parties and upon awakening, can partly be attributed to lust for the object and the soft, nacreous glow of the screen.

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The undersides held a stickier yellow glow, and here and there a gleaming edge was picked out in nacreous brown, and the occasional filigree lacework that blossomed around a ruptured skin.

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Where the previous photo paintings relied mostly on a gray-scale palette, Ema glows with nacreous pink skin and golden hair—her body “seems to shine from within,†as one critic put it.

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