nacreous

comparative more nacreous · superlative most nacreous

1. Of, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl).

   They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain.

   2001, Neil Gaiman, chapter 11, in American Gods, Harper Collins, page 323

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   We (mother Haze, Dolores and I) were to go to Our Glass Lake this afternoon, and bathe, and bask; but a nacreous morn degenerated at noon into rain, and Lo made a scene.

   1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 11, in Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC

2. Exhibiting lustrous or rainbow-like colors.