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opalescence

noun as in iridescence

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Here, he is joined by the harpist Brandee Younger, who adds some lunar opalescence to his sound.

In dusky colors often shot through with opalescence, they picture ordinary objects on flat surfaces — a shoe, a bowl, a paper bag — as if they were sacred relics.

Across the violet surface of the Mediterranean and the crystal opalescence of the evening sky the music fell voluptuously.

Color tends to a muted opalescence, but in “Moving,” in which she appears three times at about life size, dancing across a five-foot-wide canvas, an intense yellow glow suffuses and heats the image.

This term, derived from fluor-spar after the analogy of opalescence from opal, does not presuppose any theory.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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