iridescence
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The famous are merely random iridescences on the oil spot, depending less upon intrinsic value than upon the angle at which the light strikes them.
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Twelve tanks contained small Betta splendens, a velvety black- and-bluish fish from Siam, with a round tail and carmine iridescences.
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Pianist Walter Gieseking, absent from the U. S. for two years, had already established himself as a prime interpreter of the subtle iridescences of Claude Debussy.
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Colorless in itself, it can produce iridescences beyond any artist's palette.
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To the northwest they were pulsing like the aurora, and like the aurora they were shot through with swift iridescences, spectrums, polychromatic gleamings.
From The Metal Monster by Merritt, Abraham
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