Color orange-yellow, often with local blue and green iridescence like a pigeon’s throat.
Compared with Chopin, his music lacksiridescence and shows a want of brilliancy.
The more lead is in the glass, the quicker does this iridescence supervene.
Its external colour is a gray approaching to that of metallic iron, but somewhat duller; with occasional iridescence of surface.
In sunlight, her black hair had the bluish iridescence of a ripe plum.
There were four sons and two daughters of the Tumlin union, strapping lads and lasses all of them, with more than a common dower of lusty health and a beauty that was something deeper than the perishable iridescence of youth.
Pearls and mother-of-pearl both owe their iridescence to a similar ruled structure, which is developed in the living tissue of a mollusc.
Now such iridescence is usually caused by surfaces furrowed with many very fine lines and mother-of-pearl is no exception.
The large, brilliant spots with which his silvery-bluish body is covered, and that filmy iridescenceso admired by every one, will identify him anywhere.
Inshore the substance of the ice sparkled here and there with iridescence like the plumelets of a butterfly's wing under the microscope, wherever light happened to catch the jagged or oblique flaws that veined its solid crystal.
How little we know what multitudes of mingling reminiscences, held in solution by the mind, and colouring its fancy with the iridescence of variable hues, go to make up the sentiments which music or which mountains stir!
Something of thisiridescence may cling to unmarried lovers, in spite of themselves, but wedded bliss is a sheer offence.
The gold and the colour and sweet smell and the sound of life, they exist, even if there is no bee; it only happens we see the iridescence on the wings of a bee.
Since the iridescenceand the humming of life are always, and since it was they who made me, then I am not lost.
Complete silence greeted Briggs—silence through which the vague turmoil trembling across the mother-of-pearl iridescence of the strait still reached the Silver Fleece.
One touch of the harsh finger of Fate and all the gleaming iridescence of the bubble had vanished.
Nevertheless the peridium is far more persistent than in any comatricha, and shows in yet greater brilliancy the wondrous metallic tints and iridescence of Comatricha and Diachaea.
The structure is exceedingly delicate, the peridium between the ribs and reticulations reduced to the last degree of tenuity, with the iridescence of the soap-bubble, here and there lapsed entirely.
The thin layers themselves also help to produce the iridescence by interference of light much as in the case of the opal, which has already been discussed.
Let us now attempt to understand how the beautiful luster and iridescence of the pearl are related to the layer-like structure of the gem.
In some cases the Roman pearl has a true iridescence which is produced by "burning" colors into the hollow enamel bead.
On the same principle are doubtless to be explained the colours of fiery opals, and, more remarkable still, the iridescence of certain crystals of potassium chlorate.
These animals derive their name from the metallic iridescence of the fur of most of the species.
I forget the exact words, but they set me thinking about the chameleon-like iridescence of great poems and dramas.
Under that thin film of iridescencewhat abysses of misery filled the Stygian pool of the society which lay beneath!
All afternoon we heard the rumble of logs rolling over boulders, and every now and then a fan-shaped splash of spray would flash up with a spangle of iridescence in the light of the declining sun.
There was dancing iridescence in the flung foam-spurts above the combers, and at the right of Collision Bock the beginning of a rainbow which I knew would grow almost to a full circle when we looked back from below the fall.
Reflected back to the still shadowed slopes of the eastern walls, these bolder colours became a blended iridescence of amethyst, lemon and pale misty lavender.
Regularly the spades and picks continued their work; minute dragged into minute, till another iridescence pierced the smoke.
His painting is piquant and as iridescent as a peacock's tail, but in this very iridescence there is often an unspeakable charm.
Her skin was smooth as a pearl; in the mellow firelight it glowed, with the iridescence of a shell.
Shining on Lylda's body, it tremendously enhanced the iridescence of her skin.
The iridescence of her skin gleamed under the flaming red of her cheeks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iridescence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: luster; nacre; rainbow
