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- noun The process of rendering iridescent; also, iridescence.
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- noun meteorology a
colouring seen iniridescent clouds and on the borders oflenticular clouds
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knitandpurl commented on the word irisation
"It is evidently a problem of method, he went on as if overwhelmed, one believes one is looking through a wider and wider lens, but one sees only the lens, the irisations, the dust motes on its surface, when I was an art critic I was always knocking my head against this decisive problem, how to speak about Flemish painting, how to speak about the blue of the virgin's cloak without forever erasing the color behind the word that qualifies it?"
Invitation to a Voyage by François Emmanuel, translated by Justin Vicari, pp 41-42 of the Dalkey Archive Press paperback
April 12, 2012