ADJECTIVE
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having a play of lustrous rainbow colors
a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster
nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl
an iridescent oil slick
How To Use pearlescent In A Sentence
- Price as tested is $44,600, including $8,525 in options Deep Sea Blue pearlescent paint, eight-speed Audi Tiptronic transmission, high-intensity discharge headlamps, power liftgate and onboard navigation with backup camera and an $875 destination charge. 2011 Audi Q5 2.0 T Quattro
- The solicitation of dale is now immunodeficient to a nonindulgence of colorimetrical darjeeling, from overachiever highlighter to pearlescent toot. Rational Review
- A variety of color application technologies, such as free-film, color-in-plastic and spray-in-mold methods, are well suited to the application of pearlescent pigments.
- Emerging from the skylight, I turn and walk right into a pearlescent heaven of snowbells (what a thoughtfully beautiful and observant name, like all the old names) and their perfume.
- nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl
- Her naked buttocks flashed pearlescent in the dim light.
- For best results, make sure the box isn't letting out any light, and use some sort of a white or pearlescent screen.
- Lush strips of pancetta wrap a pearlescent chunk of cod on a crudely appealing bed of pork-rib hash.
- Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan. Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet
- Pearlescent systems configured for molded-in color will help automakers extend the use of plastics from small parts and bumpers to body panels.