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And what is most remembered about a performance to Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings” is “the transcendent scene of 17 women onstage, swathed in the palest and pearliest of blues.”

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2024

The world's shiniest, smoothest, pearliest eggs to impress your friends with.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2022

Finding the pearliest treasures at shorelines called for avoiding crocodiles, spiny urchins and “burning sea slime,” Claudia Swan, one of the essayists, points out.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

Another man, who didn’t make a movie until he was 50, had the pearliest record of all.

From Time • Jan. 9, 2014

Her voice was the pearliest, most musical, and yet most distant of things.

From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.