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What does opalescent mean?

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Adjective
  1. Exhibiting a milky iridescence like that of an opal.
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Wings spread, it appears poised for flight, ready to soar over Lake Michigan, an opalescent blue in early summer.
I found a pink raw silk jacket with covered buttons, a soft leopard vest and a cream wool shell covered with opalescent sequins and beads.
The house is wrapped in opalescent glass and galvanized steel with a vein-like standing seam.
It's not the intensely bright colour of summer lilies, irises, poppies and daylilies, but the deeper gem tones of ruby-rose sedums, amethyst ajuga and opalescent anemones.
Gonnardite typically has a silky, almost opalescent luster, and it may exhibit a faint concentric banding.
This process helps combat the natural bitter flavour of the drink and releases its brilliant opalescent green colour.

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