chatoyant
Example Sentences
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The chatoyant eyes of the leopard stared back, a flicker of restlessness in their brilliant yellow deeps.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
He shook himself free and stood straight, his jaws hard and his eyes, absorbing what light there was from the stars, chatoyant.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
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
Cymophane, or chatoyant chrysoberyl, may also be asteriated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
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
