Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Rainbow-colored; iridescent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Exhibiting the
prismatic colours ;iridescent .
Etymologies
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See iris.
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Examples
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His head, laden with an Assyrian mitre, was bent, and he was watching the gold plate on his breast; it was covered with fatidical stones, and the flame mirrored in it formed irisated lights.
Salammbo 2003
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One evening, when a shower had surprised them, the sun, showing behind the downpour, lit up the whole rain cloud, and upon their heads there fell a spray of glowing water, irisated with pink and azure.
His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871
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