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chatoyant

/shuh-toi-uhnt/US // ʃəˈtɔɪ ənt //UK // (ʃəˈtɔɪənt) //

聊斋志异,聊斋,聊胜于无,闲聊

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : changing in luster or color: chatoyant silk.
    • : Jewelry. reflecting a single streak of light when cut in a cabochon.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Jewelry. a cabochon-cut gemstone having this reflected streak, as a chrysoberyl cat's eye.

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Examples

  • The chatoyant eyes of the leopard stared back, a flicker of restlessness in their brilliant yellow deeps.

  • Cymophane, or chatoyant chrysoberyl, may also be asteriated.

  • She invariably wore gloves out of doors and a veil to conceal the chatoyant eyes.

  • There was a river there too; not a little bolt of chatoyant silk like the Avon, which they would have called a "crick" back there.