| 单词 | nacreous |
| 例句 | The sunset, rosy, orange, nacreous in spots, flecked with pastel blues and streaks of lavender and blood, reflected gorgeously in those few school windows not yet broken. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A nacreous moth-colored blouse felt weightless as a wing made of dust. Critical Shopper | Zero + Maria Cornejo: Maria Cornejo Plays All the Angles 2010-02-24T23:05:00Z It made me realize that I'd unconsciously been simplifying my language, even though my daughters were perfectly able to handle words like "nacreous," "nonplussed," "ambivalent" and "palanquin." Motherlode Blog: How 'Shrek' Persuaded Me to Let the Words Fly 2012-09-24T20:16:51Z In a book whose characters are either white, very white or so white as to have nacreous fingernails and give off an otherworldly glow, these attitudes generate more unease than the author may have intended. Books of The Times: Exotic Creatures and the Humans Who Chase Them 2010-03-01T06:01:00Z It had the nacreous sheen of an oyster shell. The Tajik Artisans Guarding the Country’s Cultural Legacy 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z 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. The machine always wins: what drives our addiction to social media 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z 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. An Artist’s Life, Refracted in Film 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z A giant pearl appears between floating lips, and more nacreous orbs separate the fingers of two hands that emerge from the darkness. Glitz, glamor, shine and sparkle: the dazzling photomontages of Fay Ray 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Called nacreous or polar stratospheric clouds, the rare phenomena adorned the British sky in the wake of Storm Henry. Rare Shimmering Rainbow Clouds Appear Over the U.K. 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Vaseline-shiny eyelids, uncolored lips without a single flake, a nacreous Cupid’s bow — these are the dewy dream’s most recurring motifs. Not Nothing 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z Pearl′y, like a pearl, nacreous: yielding pearls: dotted with pearls: clear, transparent: having a pure sweet tone. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z The principle in question, ouabaine, forms rectangular plates, very slender, of a nacreous appearance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z The coiled shell can exhibit a nacreous luster or bands of bright color. Too Much Love Threatens Chambered Nautilus, Scientists Say 2011-10-24T14:59:17Z Shell not nacreous, without umbilicus, with prominent spire and polished surface. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z They were not dark northern waves that baffled us, but we were shoved and rocked by the send of a long nacreous ocean swell, firm but kind, from the south-west. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Strands of nacreous spheres reflected a soft radiance from the lamp; luster of cream-colored satin. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z The interior is nacreous, and the exterior covered with coarse granules. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them Boric acid crystallizes from water in white nacreous laminae belonging to the triclinic system; it is difficultly soluble in cold water, but dissolves readily in hot water. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Ingot from lost orient mines, Delved by humpbacked gnomes of Night, Full her orb loomed, nacreous white, O'er Pine Mountain's druid pines. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems His pale-robed heralds were busy, however, diffusing that sort of nacreous haze which in coastal Australia lights the way for each day's coming. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography In manufacture the original external surface of the shell has been ground and polished to a nacreous surface. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 It is seldom as much as half an inch in length, and has a nacreous interior. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them Her bright, voluptuous glances upward rise Into the vague and nacreous infinite. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems And some thirst for the forest shades And for a nacreous dawn, and for a sunset Dipped in red blood, a barren wilderness Light-burned. Life Immovable First Part There’s no sham there; no deception—except the iridescence, which is, as you doubtless know, an optical illusion attributable to the intervention of rays of light reflected from microscopic corrugations of the nacreous surface. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana So the nacreous glory of Procyon's rising was just tinting the windows of Jeff's cottage when he aligned and activated his little communicator on his breakfast table. Traders Risk The interior is nacreous, and of a greenish colour, with a white patch round the columella. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them Her boreal bloom doth win Our eyes to feasting rare On rich delight of nacreous skin, And a wealth of whiteness fair. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems Each reflector apparently focussed upon an object in the center, a helix which seemed to writhe luridly in that flaming focus, glowing with a nacreous, opalescent green light. Skylark Three Ellen, in contrast, wore iris-tinted gowns that displayed nacreous arms and shoulders, and her hair passed in great dark shining licks over her little unadorned ears. Joanna Godden The suffering angel, whose face was usually so sweet, was transformed in every feature, while her eyes swam, showing balls of a nacreous blue. A Love Episode All of the Cantharidus family have beautiful nacreous interiors, and are the favourite New Zealand shells for necklaces and bracelets. Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them Erin, Emerald Isle. iridescent, a. prismatic, nacreous. iris, n. flower-de-luce, fleur-de-lis, flag. Putnam's Word Book Arabesques proceeded from lozenges of lapis lazuli, wove their patterns on the cupolas where, on nacreous marquetry, crept rainbow gleams and prismatic flames. Against the Grain He took from the sack a wondrous thing, luminous with nacreous hues. The Flying Legion The pearl is nothing but a nacreous formation, deposited in a globular form, either adhering to the oyster shell, or buried in the folds of the creature. 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