How To Use Mother-of-pearl In A Sentence
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Another category of vessels and flatware was distinguished by the use of precious stones or exotic materials, such as coral, mother-of-pearl, or coconut shell.
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Fine and rare items, like the pristine 19th century mother-of-pearl workbox, blonde tortoiseshell tea caddy, together with snuff boxes and Oriental ivories, will bring collectors from far and near.
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It was purfled about the rim of the soundbox with trapezia of shimmering mother-of-pearl, and it had a black strikeplate in the shape of a clematis flower, inlaid with multicoloured blossoms that were purely the result of an exuberant craftsman's imagination.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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The red cloth was then edged with rows of iridescent mother-of-pearl buttons.
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The birds were carolling in full chorus and the eastern sky was mother-of-pearl flushing to pink, like a maiden's cheek in a Disney movie.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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He opened his little sacrament case and took out the big missal which was his own property, bound in costly mother-of-pearl.
THE THORN BIRDS
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From your photography, it is clear that your mother-of-pearl earrings correspond to other known examples of Martha Washington's pearl jewelry, some of which is in our collection.
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Two multi-colored gold and mother-of-pearl rococo nécessaires, each fitted with gold sewing implements in the rim and in a gold-mounted mother-of-pearl tray, the cover of one featuring a courting couple, of the other, a pastoral couple.
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As we entered, I could not help being impressed by the wealth of articles in beautiful cloisonne enamel, in mother-of-pearl, lacquer, and champleve.
The War Terror
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nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl
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With its ebullience of baroque form and boldly patterned marquetry made of exotic woods, mother-of-pearl and ivory, the stand includes the delightful illusion that an embroidered cloth has been flung across the top.
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Yet another technique of which he had not located a description in published sources was inlay of silver, gold, or mother-of-pearl inset into lacquer.
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The quantity of mother-of-pearl-shell, _communibus annis_, sold there is two thousand piculs, at six dollars a picul.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy
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The grand white doors revealed a marble hallway, with mother-of-pearl inlay on the walls.
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Other forms of graphic arts include lacquerware, mother-of-pearl inlay, gold work, nielloware, silverware, wood carving, ceramics, basketry and plaiting, weaving, and painting on paper or canvas.
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Dinner tables were embellished with armorial silver and porcelain, gaming tables used mother-of-pearl gaming counters bearing coats of arms, while libraries were filled with rare volumes containing armorial bookplates.
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Prize; Prize Value: A black onyx briolette necklace, a mother-of-pearls earrings, a santa pouch & brush guards. $60 value
Viva Woman Bejeweled Giveaway - Part 3 (ends 12/20)
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He wore jeans, a checked cotton shirt with mother-of-pearl snaps, and a turquoise bolo tie.
THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
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Choose from five different slim, flip design styles with varying embellishments, including black and white sapphire crystals, gold, diamonds and mother-of-pearl – they range from $6,500 to $13,400.
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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It was completely black with mother-of-pearl buttons.
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It appeared to be of fixed shape, a cylindroid almost ten kilometers in length and two in diameter, majestically rotating on its long axis, mother-of-pearl iridescent.
The Boat of a Million Years
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They often had tortoiseshell veneer and ivory and mother-of-pearl inlays.
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‘They have used some beautiful mother-of-pearl and glass buttons for men's coats and waistcoats,’ said Lucy.
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During the 1630s and 1640s, the decoration of export lacquer became lighter and more pictorial, and the use of mother-of-pearl gradually disappeared.
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Utensils can be made of mother-of-pearl, bone, enamel, or even plastic.
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Running her fingers along the walls and across the sculpted lines of the gleaming mother-of-pearl counter, the visitor feels a contoured motif bearing the unmistakable Quinze signature.
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Pearls were harvested for their high value and pearlshell was used commercially for button-making and for mother-of-pearl.
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Gleaming, iridescent mother-of-pearl possesses more than beauty.
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This combination of calcium carbonate and conchiolin is called nacre or mother-of-pearl.
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Before I had time to think, I was standing next to him, politely taking what he offered, which turned out to be a piece of notebook paper and a mother-of-pearl fountain pen.
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With their vibrantly coloured pareus clasped with mother-of-pearl shells, their long black hair - sleek, shiny and scented with coconut oil - the women simply take your breath away.
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Photographs by Kurt Wilberding Marco Bicego Jaipur bangle crafted in 18-karat yellow gold with citrine and mother-of-pearl, $890, and Jaipur bangle crafted in 18-karat yellow gold with citrine and blue topaz, $890 each, Saks, 877-551-7257
More Citrine Gems
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The paths were paved with mother-of-pearl card counters, and the fountain was a silver and glass ash-tray, with a needlecase of filigree silver rising up from the middle of it; and the falling water was made quite nicely out of narrow bits of the silver paper off the chocolate Helen had given him at parting.
The Magic City
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I just hadn't expected to spot them at the breakfast table in brushed polyester with mother-of-pearl buttons.
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She had on a pearl necklace and clam-shaped mother-of-pearl earrings.
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From the veranda he had seen him fling sticks of exploding dynamite into a screeching mass of blacks who had come raiding from the Beyond in the long war canoes, beaked and black, carved and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which they had left hauled up on the beach at the door of Meringe.
CHAPTER III
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Later netsuke, figures and works of art could have considerable amounts of inlay in mother-of-pearl, amber, coconut, tortoiseshell and stained ivory.
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Cottier inlaid it with tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl in panels depicting musical instruments and masks on the lid and nine portraits of famous composers around the sides.
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In the rest of the house all parts were overlaid with gold and adorned with gems and mother-of-pearl.
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The restaurant has heavy starched white linen tablecloths and huge antique Siamese chairs with mother-of-pearl inlaid backs.
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- I want a big circle skirt, black, where the hem is a four-inch border of grey mother-of-pearl buttons, in a bunch of different sizes.
In Praise of Buttons - A Dress A Day
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They often had tortoiseshell veneer and ivory and mother-of-pearl inlays.
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Some pieces are simply painted repeatedly until the high glossy shine is achieved, while others are crafted with an intricate design, sometimes using thin gold leaf or mother-of-pearl.
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He laughed, went over to the small mother-of-pearl inlaid table and picked up the bottle of Martell VSOP the Elhams had brought.
A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
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Cooper felt shagreen possessed ‘some of the qualities of both M of P [mother-of-pearl] & leather.
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They supplied buttons for all of Madonna's costumes in Evita, including special diamanté and pre-war mother-of-pearl buttons.
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Mother-of-pearl has been found in Babylonian ruins that are more than four thousand years old.
PEARL COVE
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Mother-of-pearl glows and its radiance diffuses a luminous light.
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Other forms of graphic arts include lacquerware, mother-of-pearl inlay, gold work, nielloware, silverware, wood carving, ceramics, basketry and plaiting, weaving, and painting on paper or canvas.
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Something fell out - maybe to anyone else it would have looked like a chip of mother-of-pearl.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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He opened his little sacrament case and took out the big missal which was his own property, bound in costly mother-of-pearl.
THE THORN BIRDS
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The dome was lined with thousands of tiny mother-of-pearl tiles, which reflected the sun onto the worshippers in a spray of rainbow light.
TREASON KEEP
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It includes butterflies and dragonflies made of mother-of-pearl, abalone and malachite inlays.
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Makers created presentation models crafted from expensive woods with carved elements and inlays of mother-of-pearl or ivory.
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They often had tortoiseshell veneer and ivory and mother-of-pearl inlays.
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Early fish knives had ivory or mother-of-pearl handles with silver blades of unique shapes.
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Makers created presentation models crafted from expensive woods with carved elements and inlays of mother-of-pearl or ivory.
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To assure us that interest in abstract patterning continues, there's the whimsical, Escher-like "Horn Spoon" (2009) in which artist Kevin Pourier (Oglala Lakota, b. 1958) beautifully conjures up the relationship between contemporary and traditional design and materials, by alternating mother-of-pearl and buffalo horn to form a geometric pattern of modern sensibility.
The Art Behind the Narrative
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Tables inlaid with mother-of-pearl stood at intervals along walls mosaicked in intricate patterns with thousands of tiny, multihued tiles.
Conan The Magnificent
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The furniture makers in and around the city of Trapani often used blackened pearwood instead of ebony, and much mother-of-pearl and coral, for which Trapani was famous.
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Such a structure reflects light in unusual ways similar to mother-of-pearl or the gemstone opal.
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Some of the most creative Egyptian handicrafts include wooden jewelry boxes covered with mother-of-pearl, silver and hand-painted serving trays, and leather ottomans (upholstered footrests) with intricate designs.
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In the past there was commercial over-exploitation of the sea cucumbers Isostichopus fuscus and Parastichopus parvimensis, of mother-of-pearl Pinctada mazatlanica and winged oysters Pteria sterna.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
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And I have no idea what happened to his pretty little mother-of-pearl handled knife.
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On Nunnwood -- the sole remnant of antique British forest in a region whose lowlands were once all sylvan chase, as its highlands were breast-deep heather -- slept the shadow of a cloud; the distant hills were dappled, the horizon was shaded and tinted like mother-of-pearl; silvery blues, soft purples, evanescent greens and rose-shades, all melting into fleeces of white cloud, pure as azury snow, allured the eye with a remote glimpse of heaven's foundations.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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The nine-room suite has walls inlaid with thousands of pieces of mother-of-pearl.
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The inside shells of oysters and other shell-forming mollusks are covered with a shiny, lustrous substance called nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
Undefined
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE
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In the early 1820s, when settlers began to occupy Xhosa territory, Xhosa raiders sometimes accosted English herdboys to steal the mother-of-pearl buttons from their shirts.
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The red abalone, a seaweed-eating snail prized as a source of mother-of-pearl jewelry, is found off the coast of California.
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The restaurant has heavy starched white linen tablecloths and huge antique Siamese chairs with mother-of-pearl inlaid backs.
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Makers created presentation models crafted from expensive woods with carved elements and inlays of mother-of-pearl or ivory.
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Tucson, Ariz., bicycle builder known for work such as inlaying mother-of-pearl into his frames, is working with prototype KVA tubing.
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Fine and rare items, like the pristine 19th century mother-of-pearl workbox, blonde tortoiseshell tea caddy, together with snuff boxes and Oriental ivories, will bring collectors from far and near.
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On Nunnwood - the sole remnant of antique British forest in a region whose lowlands were once all sylvan chase, as its highlands were breast-deep heather - slept the shadow of a cloud; the distant hills were dappled, the horizon was shaded and tinted like mother-of-pearl; silvery blues, soft purples, evanescent greens and rose-shades, all melting into fleeces of white cloud, pure as azury snow, allured the eye as with
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Tiny pure white lace gloves and a mother-of-pearl prayer missal completed the ensemble.
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Nia paused and stared up at the coral stone tower with its mother-of-pearl facing, and had to fight back tears again.
WATER BOOK THREE: TRANSFORMATION
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Or a syndication of gut awhirl in a shell of mother-of-pearl.
My House In The Middle Of The Ocean
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The restaurant has heavy starched white linen tablecloths and huge antique Siamese chairs with mother-of-pearl inlaid backs.
