chatoyant

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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 MacGrath, Harold

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 Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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

The chatoyant eyes of the leopard stared back, a flicker of restlessness in their brilliant yellow deeps.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold