iridescent

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  1. adjective Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors: an iridescent oil slick; iridescent plumage.
  2. adjective Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful in effect or appearance: "The prelude was as iridescent as a prism in a morning room” (Carson McCullers).

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  • His garb was nothing uncommon - iridescent white shirt, close-fitting black trousers, soft boots - but he wore it with an air that she thought might, long ago, have been a gaucho's. —  Starfarers
  • During the week that followed, we all experienced a weird sense of helplessness as almost fifty tall, iridescent-green Martians spread out across the United States. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • Certainly their iridescent, brilliant colors were as attractive as any of the magnificent but static artworks that dominated the walls. —  Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • As the iridescent, polychromatic light shining out the eye sockets of the paraman dimmed to a gentle glow, the fake Lens metamorphosed once more into a pretty simulation, and then dulled into lifelessness. —  The Dragon Lensman
  • The surface of the hooves gleamed in the slanting sunlight, iridescent, and the spirals of the homs shot out splays of mirror-light. —  Blue Adept
 

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/ɪrɪˈdɛsənt/
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