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  • adverb In an iridescent manner.

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Examples

  • They stood more than six feet tall and were exactly as Maple had described them—white hair and skin, with silver-blue robes that shimmered iridescently.

    Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011

  • Britten's music for Oberon, Titania, and the Fairies is strange, spooky, and iridescently beautiful.

    Archive 2007-04-01 sfmike 2007

  • Britten's music for Oberon, Titania, and the Fairies is strange, spooky, and iridescently beautiful.

    Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" sfmike 2007

  • A cluster of marbles sparkled iridescently, hypnotically.

    String Theory, Book 3: Evolution Heather Jarman 2006

  • His sense of order made it a pleasure to see a plate yellow with dried egg glisten iridescently and flash into shining whiteness; or a room corner filled with dust and tobacco flakes become again a “nice square clean corner with the baseboard shining, gee! just like it was new.”

    Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

  • It flashed and glittered iridescently in the sun, and the whole thing gave Glory a headache to look at it.

    The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002

  • ITS SCALED body shone like a dolphin's, but more iridescently blue.

    Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998

  • He was about Woofer's size, and his every baby feather gleamed iridescently in the sunlight as he moved.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • He was about Woofer's size, and his every baby feather gleamed iridescently in the sunlight as he moved.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • A shimmering soap bubble, perhaps, just floating innocently by, the light glinting iridescently from its surface.

    Demons Don't Dream Anthony, Piers 1993

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