nacre

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On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, a present from Lady Radley, his guardian's wife, a pretty professional invalid, who had spent the preceding winter in Cairo, was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.

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  1. noun See mother-of-pearl.

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  1. French, from Old French nacle, from Old Italian naccaro, drum, nacre, from Arabic naqqāra, small drum, from naqara, to bore, pierce; see nqr in Semitic roots.

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  1. Formerly naker; from French nacre, Old French nacaire = Provencal necari = Spanish nácar, nácara = Portuguese nacar = Italian naccaro, nacchera, gnacchera, nacre, from Middle Latin nacara, nacer, nacrum, a pearl-shell, nacre; cf. Kurdish nakāra, an ornament of different colors, nacre, from Arabic nakīr, hollowed out, nukrat, small round hollow, nakara, hollow out; Hebrew nākar, dig, nekārāh, a pit. Cf. naker.
 

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