iridescent

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Where her vision clears, she’s in a hall lit by candlelight and crystal chandeliers draped in pearls, dressed in an iridescent gown and jewels evocative of the decade’s New Romantic style.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

The collection's theme was "cangiante", an Italian word synonymous with iridescent and describing "something that remains entirely itself, yet changes depending on your perspective", the brand said in a statement.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

It was “an iridescent bubble floating above the city’s cares,” writes Lyse Doucet in “The Finest Hotel in Kabul.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

She walked over to her dresser, the top of which held a few small glass sculptures of dolphins with iridescent eyes that she had been collecting off and on for more than a decade.

From Slate • Nov. 15, 2025

In Pappachi’s study, mounted butterflies and moths had disintegrated into small heaps of iridescent dust that powdered the bottom of their glass display cases, leaving the pins that had impaled them naked.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy