mother-of-pearl
珍珠贝母,珍珠母,珍珠之母,珍珠母贝
Definitions
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- : a hard, iridescent substance that forms the inner layer of certain mollusk shells, used for making buttons, beads, etc.; nacre.
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- : of or having the qualities of mother-of-pearl, as being iridescent or pearly: mother-of-pearl buttons.
Examples
Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.
Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
But my sources, my young women and their mother, heroically held firm.
I thought about the mother, her fear of the dark, of the harm she feared might come to her daughters.
Meanwhile two kids were taken from their mother when she flew back to the UK from Turkey.
There was no doubt thought of his own loss in this question: yet there was, one may hope, a germ of solicitude for the mother too.
"The Smoker," and "Mother and Daughter," a triptych, are two of her principal pictures.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The mother's lips could not finish the charge she was about to put upon her innocent child.
The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”