chatoyant
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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
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
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 Harold MacGrath
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
While Nekhludoff was thus exchanging the customary kisses with the peasant and taking from him a dark-brown egg, he noticed the chatoyant dress of Matriena Pavlovna and the lovely head with the red bow.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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