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nacreous

 (adj): consisting of or resembling mother-of-pearl
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5 months ago chained_bear said:

"Standing there he saw the sun go down, the sky turn nacreous so that the roofs beyond the court took on the sharpness of a silhouette: the pallor deepened to an exquisite violet; the outlines vanished, lights appeared..." --Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 366

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