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Chatoyant   Listen
Chatoyant

adjective
1.
Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles.  Synonyms: changeable, iridescent, shot.  "Chatoyant (or shot) silk" , "A dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"






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"Chatoyant" Quotes from Famous Books



... many-colored streamers which adorn you, is not this music which welcomes you, this radiance that glows about you, meant solely for your enjoyment, young miss of seventeen or eighteen summers, now for the first time swimming unto the frothy, chatoyant, sparkling, undulating sea of laces and silks and satins, and white-armed, flower-crowned maidens struggling in their waves beneath the lustres that make the false ...
— Elsie Venner • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Words linked to "Chatoyant" :   shot, colourful, changeable, colorful



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