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nacre

 (n): the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell
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8 months ago mollusque said:

As history unveiled itself in the new order, man's mind had behaved like a young pearl oyster, secreting its universe to suit its conditions until it had built up a shell of nacre that embodied all its notions of the perfect.
The Education of Henry Adams, 1906

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