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iridescent (iou)



iridescent adjective. L18.
[from Latin irid-, IRIS + -ESCENT.]
Displaying colours like those of the rainbow, or those reflected from soap-bubbles etc.; glittering or flashing with an array of colours which changes as the observer moves.
E. Waugh The brook..broke into innumerable iridescent cascades as it fell. fig.: J. S. Blackie The best fictions, without a deep moral significance beneath, are only iridescent froth.
iridesce verb intrans. (rare) shine in an iridescent manner L19.
iridescence noun the quality of being iridescent; a glittering play of changing colours: E19.
iridescently adverb L18.