chatoyant

Example Sentences

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She invariably wore gloves out of doors and a veil to conceal the chatoyant eyes.

From The Green Eyes of Bâst by Rohmer, Sax

The faint eery light that glowed in the stranger’s deep-set eyes was not the lambent flame seen in the chatoyant orbs of some night-prowling jungle beast.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various

Cymophane, or chatoyant chrysoberyl, may also be asteriated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

Shot, shot, adj. having a changeable colour, chatoyant, as silk, alpaca, &c.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

She was leaning on her elbows, her chin propped in her palms, and the light in her grey chatoyant eyes was wholly innocent and mischievous.

From Hearts and Masks by MacGrath, Harold