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once given away as a cheap prize at carnivals, this opalescent glass is now highly prized by collectors
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Barbaro’s performance is stirring, her falsetto fine and opalescent.
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
The quality of the light not quite the same, softer, more opalescent, and part of the pool in the shade, making the water there look flat and deep.
—David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
Her nails, designed by her go-to nail artist Miho Okawara, were a long almond shape painted with an iridescent pale gray with an opalescent finish that shifted from pale pink to pale blue with the light.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 21 Oct. 2024
Inside a wet glint, opalescent, full as an egg
of creamy gray shadow, sediment
ground down finely and suspended
like a verdict in a tone.
—Frances Leviston, The New York Review of Books, 26 Sep. 2024
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Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
The quality of the light not quite the same, softer, more opalescent, and part of the pool in the shade, making the water there look flat and deep.
—David Szalay, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2024
Her nails, designed by her go-to nail artist Miho Okawara, were a long almond shape painted with an iridescent pale gray with an opalescent finish that shifted from pale pink to pale blue with the light.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 21 Oct. 2024
Inside a wet glint, opalescent, full as an egg
of creamy gray shadow, sediment
ground down finely and suspended
like a verdict in a tone.
—Frances Leviston, The New York Review of Books, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Opalescent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opalescent. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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opalescent
adjective
opal·es·cent
ˌō-pə-ˈles-ᵊnt 
: reflecting an iridescent light
saliva is a viscous opalescent fluid
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