iridescent

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A few French words are thrown in as well as harder words such as iridescent, azure, automatic, and glamorous.

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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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  • It is marbled green cardboard and the ink is brown and iridescent, almost bronze. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
  • Off the starboard side, he saw a ghostly longboat pass, holding a miasmatic old man, fat as a barrel, with a white beard, and a wan, iridescent, young girl. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
  • What she's wearing indoors is skin-tight, iridescent, and, disturbingly, claims to be a distributed extension of her neuroectoderm. —  Asimov's SF, Feb 2002
  • And the dragon himself: his scales were mirror-polished, iridescent, and as supple and overlapping as the best warrior's mail. —  Castle Roogna
  • A few French words are thrown in as well as harder words such as iridescent, azure, automatic, and glamorous. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
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